There wasn’t much doubt, but now it’s basically official: Russia’s war is not only against Ukraine, but against the entire West. From the very first days of the invasion of February 24, 2022, the conflict had appeared for what it is: one clash by proxy in which the US provides everything necessary to Kiev without intervening directly.
With the release of the 61 billion dollars in aidThen, Washington gives a clear signal about its intentions. Just like the Kremlin, which publishes an unpublished document that, for the first time, provides official confirmation and codification of what the Russian elites define as no half measures a hybrid war against the West. With the convenient collaboration of Iran and China.
The Kremlin’s secret file on the clash with the USA
According to a secret document from the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow is carrying out plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, primarily the United Statesand exploit the war in Ukraine to create a multipolar global order undermining American hegemony. It was a bit of an open secret, in fact, but the fact that the Kremlin decided to put it in black and white says a lot. In the section outlining the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, we read about one “offensive information campaign” and other measures involving “the political-military, economic, commercial and psychological spheres of information”. In a word: hybrid warfare, that is, a military tactic that employs and mixes elements of conventional and unconventional wars. All while remaining in the category of plausible deniabilitywithout the war commitment being formalized or declared, avoiding any attribution of responsibility on paper.
The unpublished Russian document is dated April 11, 2023 and it was revealed to the Washington Post by a European intelligence service. It’s about an addendum, i.e. an appendix, to the Kremlin’s official foreign policy program. “It is important to create a mechanism to identify vulnerable points in the external and internal policies of countries hostile to Russia, in order to develop concrete measures to weaken their governments.” In concrete terms, Russia is trying to subvert Western support for Ukraine and of disrupt the internal politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns in support of isolationist and extremist policies. Moscow’s program also envisages a geopolitical turning point with the rapprochement with China, Iran and North Korea in an attempt to shift the current global balance of power.
Using much harsher and blunter language than the public foreign policy document, the secret addendum states that the outcome of the war in Ukraine “will largely determine the contours of the future world order.” A clear indication that Moscow sees the outcome of his invasion as inextricably linked to its abilities to impose its influence globally. The general document, called by American intelligence “Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation”precedes the hitherto secret addendum by just a couple of weeks (it had been approved by Vladimir Putin on March 31, 2023) and, unlike the more “forceful” appendix, uses mild diplomatic language to call for “the democratization of international relations”, “sovereign equality” and the strengthening of Russia’s position on the world stage. Although the document directly accuses Washington and “its satellites” of having used the Ukrainian conflict to intensify “an anti-Russian policy that has lasted for many years”, on the other hand it also states that “Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the USA”. And, above all, that “he has no bad intentions towards her”.
The Russian message also to the West
The document also contains a hope from Moscow, namely that the West “realises the lack of future in its conflictual politics and in its hegemonic ambitions, and accept the reality of multipolar world“. The Russian Foreign Ministry, for its part, took the trouble to produce an official note in which it specifies that it does not comment on “the existence or non-existence of government documents” nor on the progress of work on them. A move that tells us that, in all likelihood, the Kremlin needs internal opinion and external gaze (China and Iran are at the window) to make its position clear aversion to the US-led world order. A message of strength and resolve in pursuing the common enemy of the anti-Western bloc, at a time when negotiations are called for and Moscow’s partners see a Ukraine on its last legs still resist the blows of the invader, who was not capable of (or rather, did not want to) give the final blow to the invaded country.
A message that today, with the certainly controlled revelation of the secret document – which otherwise would not have come out of the Kremlin’s drawers – is also aimed at the West itself, seen as weaker (due to tiredness of US hegemons) and fragmented (EU inconsistent and European countries divided on support for Ukraine). “As we have stated several times at different levels, we can confirm that the atmosphere is one of resolutely combating the aggressive measures taken by the collective West as part of the hybrid war launched against Russia,” the Russian ministry adds.
Russia’s recent veto against the extension of the monitoring of sanctions by the United Nations against the United Nations should be read in the same context North Korea on its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, which effectively ended 14 years of cooperation. This is also “a clear sign” that the work detailed in the classified document is already underway, reveals an academic source, protected by anonymity, with close ties to senior Russian diplomats. “Russia can create difficulties for the United States in many different regions of the world”, the source continues. “These are the Middle East, Northeast Asia, Africa and even Latin America.” The modification of Concept of foreign policy and the classified addendum followed an appeal made by the Kremlin to Russian academics for political suggestions. That is, Putin’s entourage has involved its intellectuals in planning the future of the Federation, with a view to cementing the various strata of the Russian population. A proposal presented in February 2023 to the ministry of Sergei Lavrov by the deputy head of the Institute for Commonwealth of Independent States of Moscowclosely tied to the security apparatus, laid out Russia’s options even more bluntly.
Elections and politics: the Russian plan for the US and the EU
The recipe that reached Lavrov’s desk was in line with the Russian modus operandi abroad. Academician Vladimir Zharikhin proposed that the Kremlin “continue to facilitate therise to power of right-wing isolationist forces in America” and to “allow the destabilization of Latin American countries and the rise to power of far-left and far-right forces.” A section of the speech directly concerns us too, because the Russian leader proposes to facilitate “the restoration of the sovereignty of the European states, supporting parties dissatisfied with economic pressure from the United States.” Elections and politics therefore remain crucial for Russia to exercise its interference.
The plan drawn up by Zharikhin, which ended up among the documents revealed to the Washington Post, then suggests that Russia should fuel the conflict between the United States and China over the Taiwan issue to bring Moscow and Beijing closer. And it should do the same “to intensify the situation in the Middle East around Israel“, exploiting Iran And Syria to “distract the United States from the problems of this region.”
If on the one hand Zharikhin refused to discuss his proposal, on the other Western officials confirm that his theses can be perfectly integrated with those already implemented by Moscow. In the last two years Russia has indeed intensified its propaganda and influence campaigns, in an attempt to undermine US and EU support for Ukraine. In this context, officials say, Putin “has sought to create a new global divide, with Russian propaganda efforts against the West reverberating in many countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia.”
Russia, China and Iran against the American unipolar order
Beyond the secret documents, the dangers and fears of escalation and total war – especially in the Middle East – are fueled by cooperation between three empires who oppose American hegemony: China, Russia and Iran. Three powers who certainly don’t love each other, but who have created an alliance of convenience with an anti-American function. Some international media have already renamed it “Axis of Evil”borrowing an expression coined by US neoconservatives during the presidency of George W. Bush.
China appears increasingly closer to Russia. According to intelligence reports released by the administration Biden, the economic and commercial vacuum caused by Western sanctions on Moscow has been filled by Beijing, but to a level not yet fully understood. The People’s Republic Beijing has now become the main importer for the Federation bordering, with data that border on monopoly: 70% of the machinery and 90% of the electronics imported into Russia have Chinese origin. Among the products there would also be technologies that can be used in military operations in Ukraine. The exchange is intense and sees Russia “reciprocating” by selling oil and wheat at favorable pricesalmost covering a fifth of China’s needs and effectively becoming Beijing’s largest energy supplier.
With regard to Russia and Iraninvestments and infrastructure construction sites in the area Caspian Sea they move billions of dollars and bring the two powers ever closer even in their own projection in Central Asia. Large gas transport projects towards the West, the construction of roads, ports and railways and the connection of the Caspian to the Don basin (in occupied Ukraine) also involve all these ex-Soviet countries which end up in -stan, which benefit from the large capital invested by Moscow and Tehran. Furthermore, as is now known, Iran supplies drones in large quantities to Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine. Without forgetting the North Koreaa major arms exporter to the Federation.
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