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Re: Must Watch: Ukranian Deputy: US to stage a civil war in Ukraine! This was 11/202
This is part II of stuff from that 2001 piece.
That last statement was indeed interesting. It means that if that doctrine is current, that Russia will respond with nuclear weapons if it is attacked by an overwhelming conventional force. I am sure it has the United States in mind here.
Simpleχity;1064262635 said:Putin's dream - the Eurasian Economic Union - (actually the brainchild of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1994) was doomed the moment Putin invaded and illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimea on the fabricated grounds of "protecting Russian speakers".
This is part II of stuff from that 2001 piece.
PUTIN'S MULTIPOLAR WORLD VIEW
Even before Vladimir Putin ascended to his country's highest office, as the head of the National Security Council, director of the FSB, and then acting prime minister, he presided over the formulation of four important government documents that articulate Russia's foreign and defense policy. These documents, taken together, explain the new "Putin Doctrine" for Russian national security in the 21st century and demonstrate Moscow's step back to more traditional Russian and Soviet threat assessments. The documents include:
A Defense Doctrine, published in draft form in October 1999 and reissued by presidential decree on April 21, 2000;
A National Security Concept unveiled in January 2000;
The Foreign Policy Concept adopted on July 30, 2000; and
The Information Security Concept adopted in August 2000.33
Following the themes first espoused by former Prime Minister Primakov, these documents decry the emergence of a unipolar world dominated by the United States. They lay claim to a sphere of influence that encompasses most of the Eastern Hemisphere. The National Security Concept, for example, names Europe, the Trans-Caucasus, Central Asia, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East as spheres of influence for Russia. It also names the expanding NATO alliance as a danger to the Russian homeland and condemns the use of force by NATO under U.S. leadership as both a violation of international law and a dangerous security trend.
More important, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Kremlin calls the United States a major threat to the Russian state. This represents a radical departure from Yeltsin's foreign policy documents, which proclaimed that Russia has no external enemies and that the main danger to the Russian state stems from such domestic concerns as crime, corruption, and political extremism.
The National Security Doctrine broadly defines threats to the Russian state, including the establishment of foreign military bases in proximity to Russian borders. Not only does it warn against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, but it envisages the first use of nuclear weapons by Russia if it is attacked by non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical warheads or biological weapons, or by an overwhelming conventional force.
That last statement was indeed interesting. It means that if that doctrine is current, that Russia will respond with nuclear weapons if it is attacked by an overwhelming conventional force. I am sure it has the United States in mind here.