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CIA National Intelligence Estimates on the Cross-Strait and Sino-Russian Relations

The US, Chinese and Russian strategies towards Taiwan, as well as towards partially and unrecognized states in Europe, are global and interconnected In July 2011, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published a declassified National Intelligence Estimate [ 2 ] on " Russian-Chinese Relations: Perspectives and Implications " dating back to September 2000. The 45-page report highlights growing concerns in the American intelligence community ...

27.05.2020

The Zigzagging Personnel Policy of Donald Trump

.... The original top tier of the Trump administration was represented by a slapdash Conservative coalition held together by libertarian values, one that comprised several rival groups that had emerged during the 2016 campaign: 1) Trump’s closest associates (his son-in-law Jared Kushner, his lawyer Michael Cohen and billionaire Carl Icahn); 2) a group of influential retired generals (James N. Mattis, John F. Kelly, Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr. and Herbert Raymond McMaster); 3) organizers and activists ...

16.04.2018

“Rocket Man” Kim Jong-Un

“Rocket Man” Kim Jong-Un surely believes we are doing what Abe most feared! So does Vladimir Putin. In an article written two weeks ago but published only yesterday by the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and Linkedin, we made two points about North Korea. 1. That the president’s coercive diplomacy against North Korea worked temporarily. Since Sept. 15 there has been no launching of North Korean missiles. But we also warned that our foreign foes, particularly the North Koreans, but also the Russians...

29.11.2017

Are Americans Destroying Themselves from Within, as Lincoln Feared?

... Russian forces …until the final defeat of ISIS is achieved.” As Kortunov said, Syria was “a step in the right direction, but collaboration remains situational, not strategic.” Trump’s foe, Hillary Clinton, and her advisor, former acting CIA Director Mike Morell, had a very different agenda for Syria. In August 2016, Morell advocated “killing Russians” and “mak Russians pay a price.” A hawkish supporter of US military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Clinton publicly endorsed ...

29.11.2017

The CIA Led War reopens in Afghanistan

After the announcement of president Trump new South Asian strategy and according to our sources within the American intelligence community, the US forces will double their offensives on insurgency/Taliban which the Pentagon refers to special operations, known as ‘surge’. Many US Non-Official Cover (NOCs) or espionage activities will be increased. Furthermore the CIA and US intelligence community will multiply their Afghan ‘Snitches’ and maximize their operations all over Afghanistan....

25.10.2017

Do CIA and BND punish Recep T. Erdogan?

... to normalize Ankara-Moscow broken relations. For years he opposed Putin’s position on Syria, and he has given up the demand that Syrian dictator Assad must go. On the contrary, he agreed with Russia and Iran, to mutually fight ISIS and Al-Qaeda associate Al-Nusra movement. Furthermore, he pushed deeper to replace NATO military hardware, with Russian and Chinese military technologies. During his visit to Kremlin, he signed a deal to purchase S-400 air and missile defense system. Previously known ...

02.08.2017

Did Wikileaks Sound the Death Knell of Western Tech Dominance?

... Wikileaks dropped a bombshell on how the US Central Intelligence Agency could weaponize just about every “smart device” on the planet. According to WikiLeaks: “‘Year Zero’” introduces the scope and direction of the CIA’s global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of ‘zero day’ weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s ...

12.04.2017

Russia's Ex-Spy Chief Shares Opinions Of His American Counterparts

... spy? "To be frank, everyone who was in Calcutta was considered to be a spy. Everyone. Every journalist," he said. Getting The Top Job Twenty-nine years after he became a spy, Trubnikov ascended to the top job. He ran Russia's answer to the CIA, the SVR, or Foreign Intelligence Service, from 1996 to 2000. The SVR succeeded the KGB after the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991. For a man who has lived his life in the shadows, Trubnikov is surprisingly candid when asked, for example, about some ...

19.07.2016

Is Snowden worth it?

Russia is willing to consider giving political asylum to the American intelligence agencies whistleblower Edward Snowden. But why do we do that? So, Edward Snowden, former CIA and NSA contractor, is a man who has made public highly classified NSA surveillance data and currently in search of political asylum. First of all, the leak has become a sensation in the internet community. For instance, twitter entries coming along ...

11.06.2013

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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