Overextending and Unbalancing Russia —> ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF COST-IMPOSING OPTIONS
RAND CORPORATION SALES PITCH TO THE US ARMY????
DOES PUBLISHING IT ON THE WWW (WHERE RUSSIA CAN READ IT) DEFEAT IT’S USEFULLNESS???
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf
I have a crazy idea. The way to deal with Russia is to extend the hand of friendship. Radical, yes. Untried, yes. But, if one looks at Russia’s behaviour since the fall of the Soviet Union, she has consistently shown a willingness to join the nations of the world in peaceful co-existence. She has been passive, even as aggressions have been committed against her. When at last, the military and political machinations of the west have left no doubt as to our unfriendly intentions, she has struck back. Even then, she has offered to negotiate peace based on legitimate concerns. We have ignored her entreaties, and her concerns, even as she destroys the military we have conscripted to defeat her. We are war mongering fools, and we will lose.
The Military Industrial Complex will not be pleased with this thought process— a re-education vacation at the local gulag may be their preferred methodology…………assuming the mass genocide cull is avoided of course!