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Security analysis Putin Is Outwitting the West With a Soviet-Era Bag of Dirty Tricks George Kennan was the State Department‘s top hand on Moscow. As the U.S.-Soviet alliance unraveled after World War II, no one seemed to understand the Kremlin better than Kennan. One of his most insightful observations was cautionary: Do not think about the standoff with the Soviet Union as principally a military confrontation. “[Y]ou didn’t always have to occupy another country to dominate its life,” Kennan noted. “You could threaten it, or you could subvert its government by various ways, including the time-honored phenomenon of puppet government.” The message was clear: Moscow had many ways of establishing its domination and authority. The White House would do well to recall Kennan’s warning today, as the Kremlin dips once again into its Soviet-era bag of dirty tricks. At present, Vladimir Putin seems to be outwitting the West. dailysignal/2014/05/17/putin-outwitting-west-soviet-era-bag-dirty-tricks/
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:13:03 +0000

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