Originally Posted by
OUTLAW 09
Here is what is interesting about the apparent lack of US leadership and one must begin to seriously ask the question can the current national command authority actually "lead" and or think up a single "strategy"?
When dealing with the now Russia formerly the Soviet Union we see a general trend to eliminate, ignore and or invalidate memorandums, treaties, agreements that were signed by former Soviet leaders by the current Russian leader Putin--why because in his and his hardliner advisors' view of the current world these previous decisions were made under "duress" and by basically stupid Communists who did not know what they were doing.
1. Helsinki Accords---fully violated by Russia
2. INF--in fact violated and now by the US "parked" for discussions---but a violation is in fact a violation
3. OSCE agreements---Russia had to destroy over 2000 armored vehicles including T64/72/80 tanks to come into compliance--excuse after excuse provided to the OSCE and still no destruction occurs---actually the same stored tanks are now in the Ukraine
4. Budapest Memorandum ---completely violated
New Russian international relations concept referred to as the "Putin Doctrine" which basically states---where ever ethnic Russians reside is my "sphere f influence", and I can do as I want to do in order to defend them--- even annexing territory to do that.
Repeated statements made by Putin that he was going to "do" something and then it never appeared to be done---blatant lying by a national leader not seen since the 1930s.
Putin/Russian stated goals of decoupling the US from the EU/NATO, negating NATO and isolating the former Baltics and Poland, natural gas as a controlling economic weapon over Europe---negating and changing the EU to conform to Russian views of EEC.
The use of natural gas as a tactical tool to force compliance by smaller countries.
Military actions by Russia to extend their territorial boundaries since 2008.
1. Georgia
2. Moldavia
3. Crimea
Aggressive overflights of other countries and aggressive actions directed toward US/NATO surveillance in neutral zones since 2013:
1. Finland
2. Baltic Sea
3. Alaska
4. California coast
New Russian nuclear military doctrine since 2012 which in fact states---if threatened we can go to first strike without warning-- a complete reversal of the MAD principal.
Russian military practiced military nuclear strikes against Poland and the Baltics-2014
New Russian military doctrine New Generation Warfare which is basically a UW strategy in support to a political war.
1. Carried out in Crimea
2. Currently being carried out in the Ukraine where in a an eight phase process Russia is currently at phase seven of that doctrine
So when the NCA sits down at a meeting and sees this daily in his intel briefings---where is the NCA in it's thinking?
Putin has been able to thoroughly test drive his new military doctrine and the Putin Doctrine in order to physically change borders ---not done since 1945 in Europe.
So just what does the NCA think these days?
Has anyone noticed a detailed step by step prime time press conference laying out this development both to the US and global public as the underlining reasons for sanctions that would in fact truly cripple the Russian economy.
I personally am still waiting for that "painful" step that the WH said was to occur when Putin annexed the Crimea---
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