‘Our Nation Is Being Torn Apart. Truth Is Questioned.’
Summary
The former Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus have also been caught up in Moscow’s orbit or interfered with, as have Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela in Latin America. Russia deploys a full panoply of means either to displace the United States in relations with its allies, or to gain access to natural resources to help it improve its woeful sanctions-ridden economy. In Madagascar, where an oligarch and crony of Mr. Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has a large stake in a chromium mine, Russia pulled out all the stops to try to swing the electoral campaign of the incumbent president. Full spectrum warfare by Russia has recently taken the following forms: taking over the bases Mr. Trump recently evacuated in Syria; jamming American F-35 fighters; setting up military helipads on an island between Finland and Estonia; sending hundreds of mercenary troops to fight against forces of Libya’s internationally recognized government; delivering S-400 antiaircraft missile batteries to Serbia; and, along with China, violating the airspace of America’s allies Japan and South Korea. Mr. Trump even canceled a patrol of a United States Navy destroyer in the Black Sea after calling John Bolton to complain that the routine foray in international waters was anti-Russian.
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