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It became clear after the Seoul nuclear summit that the USA sticks to the old policy that goes back to 1945 – to monopolize the right to use nuclear weapons by making their non-proliferation part of international law in combination with new restrictive measures against others including Russia. It all should lead to the return of US global nuclear superiority...
Leonid SAVIN | 09.04.2012 |
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The USA has been the biggest arms supplier in the Middle East the recent 20 years, about half of US weapons and equipment export goes to the region... Militant terrorist groups are the main force of those who apply efforts to destroy Syria after doing the same thing in Libya. The Report of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria... made public in January 2012 and ignored by the West, says there is no government organized repression against peaceful protesters leading to losses of live but the armed gangs explode transport, state offices, bridges and communications. They are directly responsible for civilian deaths...
Leonid SAVIN | 17.02.2012 |
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On January 31, James Clapper, chief of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), presented a report on the threats America is to face in the future... Judging from the frequency of mention, we may conclude that Iran is now the No. 1 enemy for the US, while Russia is ranked second...
Leonid SAVIN | 10.02.2012 |
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In essence, a war against Iran – up to date a secret war – is underway. The problem the parties involved are trying to resolve is to find a way of prevailing without entering the “hot” phase of the conflict...
Leonid SAVIN | 27.01.2012 |
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The US foreign policy usually develops in several ways which differ in terms of methods used to achieve this or that goal on the international scene. Right-wing Republicans, or neoconservatives, are known for promoting the most aggressive approaches in foreign policy: they see Russia, as well as some other countries, as the quintessence of evil. Many of them are members of radical protestant sects. There are two most prominent figures among them: the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Ileana Ros -Lehtinen...
Leonid SAVIN | 17.06.2011 |
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On May 16 th , 2011, Washington unveiled its new International Strategy for Cyberspace… a war started in cyberspace may move into the real world and the consequences may be very sad… ”. However, Washington seems to be quite persuasive in interpreting cyber attacks in its own manner and making unilateral decisions as if the Internet has until recently remained terra incognita where the U.S. became the first to place its national flag…
Leonid SAVIN | 18.05.2011 |
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NATO's initial plan for the offensive against Libya evidently collapsed, and the alliance had to switch to the tactic it employed in Yugoslavia, hammering the whole range of the country's infrastructures and putting the entire civilian population under pressure rather then limiting the attacks to armed forces involved in combat...
Leonid SAVIN | 02.05.2011 |
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Recent political developments in the EU show that certain forces in Europe and the US are implementing in the western part of Eurasia a New Atlantism project aligned with the US plan for the game on the Grand Chessboard... Not long ago, NATO put the finishing touches on the STRATCON 2010 project to be unveiled at the November 19-20 NATO summit in Lisbon. The alliance's new strategic concept defines its responsibility zone as the entire planet and states that NATO should be the backbone of stability not only for the Euro-Atlantic community but for the world as a whole...
Leonid SAVIN | 17.11.2010 |
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Turkey's September 12 referendum dealt a sever blow to the positions of secularists in the country... Unless the relations between Moscow and Ankara warm considerably, Russia risks becoming the target of influence exerted by Turkey with its Neo-Ottoman doctrine. The Crimea, the Caucasus, and Central Asia are potential spheres of interest to the proponents of this ideology no less than the Middle East or North Africa. If Turkey never becomes a part of Europe, its rapidly growing population will certainly channel its energy into the Turkish expansion north and north-east...
Leonid SAVIN | 22.09.2010 |
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Numerous publications in the US mass media show that the reform of the national cyber defense forces as well as the introduction of the doctrine and strategy of the cyber war are soon to be completed. As for the US cyber strategy we can assume that it is in line with the general concept of the US global leadership...
Leonid SAVIN | 02.09.2010 |
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