US war strategy online

This one is fascinating and important

Key points: The “bleeding” of Russia shall be achieved with the use of the following measures: - Hindering Russian natural gas exports to Europe by opposing pipeline renovations and manipulating world oil prices; - Encouraging the brain-drain and seeking to exacerbate further Russia’s demographic crisis; - Providing lethal aid to Ukraine; - Promoting regime-change in Belarus; - Using disinformation to diminish foreign and domestic support for the RF’s leadership; - Increasing the size of the US nuclear arsenal (the fact that this breaks several treaties between the US/RF is not mentioned); - Exploiting tensions in the southern Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan); - Challenging the RF’s presence in Moldova; - Controlling the Black Sea, ultimately preventing the RF from claiming territorial waters around Sevastopol. What is truly key here is the following: what RAND had stated - and published, as early as 2010 - on the matter of Ukraine, has all happened. 

Sources cited: 

Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_re... 

RAND at a Glance: https://www.rand.org/about/glance.html 

2021 RAND Annual Report: https://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_p... 

2019 RAND Annual Report: Tomorrow Demands Today: https://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_p... 

The US plan to fight Russia REVEALED in 2019 Report – Inside Russia Report (16 min)