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На прошлой неделе в комиссии Сената по международным отношениям без особых фанфар прошли слушания об отношениях с Россией. Показания давали Весс Митчелл из Госдепа, который сменил Викторию Нуланд на посту Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, и Маршалл Биллингслеа, который отвечает в Минфине за санкции против террористической активности. Биллингслеа был номинирован на пост Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/us_russia-relations-082118
Из вступительного слова главы комиссии Боба Коркера:
"Russia has annexed Crimea; occupied parts of Georgia; interfered with elections, including our own; violated the INF treaty – remains in violation; used chemical weapons to poison individuals in the United Kingdom; and even purportedly hacked U.S. utilities.
These offenses are bad enough, but they leave us wondering, ‘What’s next? What does the administration expect that they will next do?’
The past teaches us that even worse things may lay just over the horizon if we fail to push back now and make clear to President Putin that our nation is united – from the very top to the bottom – in standing against his destabilizing behavior, both in policy and in public posture."
https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/8/corker-convenes-second-in-series-of-hearings-on-us-russia-relations
Из вступительного слова Боба Менендеза:
"More than month after President Trump’s Helsinki meeting with President Putin, we remain in the dark as to what the two leaders discussed. We continue to hear more information - accurate or not - from the Russian government than from our own.
This is not only embarrassing, but I believe this lack of transparency has implications for our national security. I am not convinced that those who need to know in our own executive branch have a full understanding of what happened. After more than three hours with Secretary Pompeo a few weeks ago, this committee has little more insight than we did before the hearing.
Since the Administration has failed to answer Congressional requests or provide any information, I am today formally requesting Department provide all classified and unclassified cable traffic related to the Helsinki meeting, memorandums and policy directives."
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-remarks-at-senate-hearings-on-russia
Вскоре после заседания Менендез, совместно с Джин Шахин, послал письмо госсекретарю Помпео с требованием предоставить документы о встрече в Хельсинки.
"In view of the President’s comments and the inability of senior officials to provide a clear and complete description of any commitments that President Trump may have made during this two-hour conversation, we respectfully request that you provide the Senate Foreign Relations Committee members relevant materials including all classified and unclassified cable traffic, memoranda of conversations, interpreter’s notes and policy directives related to the meeting, and if no such documents exist, to confirm so.
The purpose of these requests would be to:
- Obtain an understanding of President Trump’s extended one-on-one meeting with President Putin in Helsinki and what, if any, commitments were made to the Russian Federation on behalf of the United States.
- Ascertain the veracity of the statements made by Russian officials since that meeting claiming that President Trump made various commitments to them, including on U.S. policy in Syria and Ukraine, and whether those commitments are consistent with current laws.
We make this request only as a direct result of the extraordinary and, to our knowledge, unprecedented circumstances of President Trump’s two hour, one-on-one meeting with a leader identified as a threat to the United States by President Trump’s own National Security Strategy. This situation requires urgent congressional oversight particularly in light of any potential U.S. commitments resulting from the meeting and to understand and address any Russian misinformation related to the meeting. In order to conduct the oversight responsibilities of this committee, it is appropriate we have access to these materials."
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-shaheen-formally-request-relevant-documents-and-interpreter-notes-for-trump-putin-summit-
Весс Митчелл, соавтор книжки "The Godfather Doctrine" о поведении крестного отца Корлеоне как образца для внешней политики, настроен по отношению к России агрессивно.
Our strategy is animated by the realization that the threat from Russia has evolved beyond being simply an external or military one; it includes unprecedentedly brazen influence operations orchestrated by the Kremlin on the soil of our allies and even here at home in the United States. These activities are, as FBI Director Wray recently stated, “wide and deep,” being both extensively resourced and directed from the highest levels of the Russian state. We work closely with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and, and the National Security Council to ensure that all relevant resources are being brought to bear to thwart and punish any Russian influence campaigns in the run-up to the elections.
It’s important to state clearly what these campaigns are and are not about.
What they’re not about is any particular attachment to specific U.S. domestic political causes. They are not about right or left or American political philosophy. The threat from Russian influence operations existed long before our 2016 presidential election and will continue long after this election cycle, or the next, or the next. As the recent Facebook purges reveal, the Russian state has promoted fringe voices on the political left, not just the right, including groups who advocate violence, the storming of federal buildings and the overthrow of the U.S. government. Russia foments and funds controversial causes – and then foments and funds the causes opposed to those causes. Putin’s thesis is that the American Constitution is an experiment that will fail if challenged in the right way from within. Putin wants to break apart the American Republic, not by influencing an election or two, but by systematically inflaming the perceived fault-lines that exist within our society. His is a strategy of chaos for strategic effect. Accepting this fact is absolutely essential for developing a long-term comprehensive response to the problem. The most dangerous thing we could do is to politicize the challenge, which in itself would be a gift to Putin.
What Russian efforts are about is geopolitics: the Putinist system’s permanent and self-justifying struggle for international dominance. As stated by a handbook of the Russian Armed Forces, the goal is “to carry out mass psychological campaigns against the population of a state in order to destabilize society and the government; as well as forcing a state to make decisions in the interests of their opponents.” Doing so involves an evolved toolkit of subversive statecraft first employed by the Bolshevik and later the Soviet state, which has been upgraded for the digital age. While these tools and technologies differ depending on the
context, the key to their success is that the Kremlin employs them within a common strategic and operational framework aimed at leveraging all available means to achieve a decisive strategic effect.
The State Department takes this threat very seriously. From my first day on the job, I have established for our team that countering this threat, in both its overt and covert forms, will be among the highest priorities for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. As a co-chair of the Russia Influence Group, I work with General Scapparotti to bring the combined resources of EUR and EUCOM to bear against this problem. Under EUR’s leadership, all 50 U.S. missions located in Europe and Eurasia are required to develop, coordinate and execute tailored action plans for rebuffing Russian influence operations in their host countries.
Within the Bureau, we recruited one of the architects of the Global Engagement Center legislation from the staff of a member of this committee; in addition, we formed a new position – the Senior Advisor for Russian Malign Activities and Trends (or, SARMAT) – to develop cross-regional strategies across offices. Early this year, EUR created a dedicated team within the Bureau to take the offensive and publicly expose Russian malign activities, which since January of this year has called out the Kremlin on 112 occasions. Together with the GEC, EUR is now working with our close ally the UK to form an international coalition for coordinating efforts in this field. The State Department requested over $380 million in security and economic assistance accounts in the President’s 2019 Budget for Europe and Eurasia that can be allocated toward combatting Russian malign influence.
https://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2018/285247.htm
Неизвестно пока, кому достанется новая должность SARMAT (Senior Advisor for Russian Malign Activities and Trends), но название должности очевидно откликается на известный комплекс САРМАТ (в классификации НАТО - Satan-2), из которого Путин грозился запускать баллистические ракеты во Флориду.
В России между тем готовятся военные учения Восток-2018, призванные по масштабу затмить самые рекордные учения советского времени.
Россия задействует около 300 тыс. военнослужащих на учении «Восток-2018», заявил Министр обороны Российской Федерации генерал армии Сергей Шойгу в ходе рабочей поездки в войска Центрального военного округа.
«Учение в чем-то повторяет «Запад-81», но в чем-то, пожалуй, еще масштабнее. Более 1000 летательных аппаратов, почти 300 тыс. военнослужащих на почти всех полигонах Центрального и Восточного военных округов, естественно, Тихоокеанский и Северный флот, полностью задействованы Воздушно-десантные войска», — сказал глава военного ведомства.
Генерал армии Сергей Шойгу отметил, что подобных масштабных мероприятий боевой подготовки не было в России с 1981 года.
По словам Министра обороны, «Восток-2018» традиционно начинается с большой серии подготовительных мероприятий — около 15 специальных учений по обеспечению войск.
«Как правило, на это накладывается объявляемая Президентом Российской Федерации, Верховным Главнокомандующим Вооруженными Силами внезапная проверка, что стало хорошей практикой в нашей жизни и работе», — подчеркнул глава военного ведомства.
«Представьте себе, что одновременно в движении, в работе находятся 36 тыс. единиц военной техники — это танки, бронетранспортеры, боевые машины пехоты, и все это, естественно, проверяется в условиях максимально приближенных к боевым», — отметил генерал армии Сергей Шойгу.
https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12193028
В рамках "внезапной проверки" активизируются войска не только на востоке, но и на западе. На фоне падения уровня поддержки Путина из-за пенсионных реформ пахнет жаренным.
Следующие крупные учения НАТО, Trident Junction, будут в Норвегии.
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