{"id":206751,"date":"2022-03-14T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=206751"},"modified":"2022-10-03T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:32:04","slug":"ukraine-it-was-all-written-in-the-rand-corp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/ukraine-it-was-all-written-in-the-rand-corp-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: \u201cOverextending and Unbalancing Russia\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Today, the dangers of military escalation are beyond description.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What is now happening in Ukraine has serious geopolitical implications. <strong>It could lead us into a World War III scenario<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It is important that a peace process be initiated with a view to preventing escalation.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><i>Global Research\u00a0condemns Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><em>A Bilateral Peace Agreement is required.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rand-corporation-russia-400x199-1.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-206752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rand-corporation-russia-400x199-1-300x149.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rand-corporation-russia-400x199-1-300x149.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rand-corporation-russia-400x199-1.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10 Mar 2022 &#8211;<em> The strategic plan of the United States against Russia was elaborated three years ago by the Rand Corporation (the manifesto, Rand Corp: how to bring down Russia, May 21, 2019). The Rand Corporation, headquartered in Washington, DC, is \u201ca global research organization developing solutions to policy challenges\u201d: it has an army of 1,800 researchers and other specialists recruited from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages, spread across offices and other locations in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf. Rand\u2019s U.S. personnel live and work in more than 25 countries.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is this model which was the inspiration for the new plan, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RB10014.html\" ><strong>Overextending and Unbalancing Russia<\/strong>,<\/a> published by Rand [1].<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RB10014.html\" >CLICK TO ACCESS the complete document of RAND May 2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Rand Corporation, which describes itself as a \u201cnonprofit, nonpartisan organization,\u201d is officially funded by the Pentagon, the U.S. Army and Air Force, national security agencies (CIA and others), agencies in other countries, and powerful non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Rand Corp. prides itself on having helped devise the strategy that enabled the United States to emerge victorious from the Cold War, forcing the Soviet Union to consume its resources in a grueling military confrontation. This model has inspired the new plan elaborated in 2019: \u201cOverextending and Unbalancing Russia\u201d, i.e. forcing the adversary to overextend itself in order to unbalance and knock it down.<\/p>\n<p>These are the main lines of attack outlined in the Rand plan, on which the United States has actually moved in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Overextending-Unbalancing-Russia-rand-corp.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-206975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Overextending-Unbalancing-Russia-rand-corp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Overextending-Unbalancing-Russia-rand-corp.webp 746w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Overextending-Unbalancing-Russia-rand-corp-300x153.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First of all<\/strong> \u2013 the plan establishes \u2013 Russia must be attacked on the most vulnerable side, that of its economy strongly dependent on gas and oil exports: for this purpose commercial and financial sanctions must be used and, at the same time, Europe must be made to decrease the importation of Russian natural gas, replacing it with US liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>In the ideological and informational field, it is necessary to encourage internal protests and at the same time undermine the image of Russia outside.<\/p>\n<p>In the military field, it is necessary to operate so that European NATO countries increase their forces in an anti-Russian function. The US can have high probability of success and high benefits with moderate risks by investing more in strategic bombers and long-range attack missiles directed against Russia. Deploying new intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe aimed at Russia assures them a high probability of success, but also carries high risks.<\/p>\n<p>By calibrating each option to obtain the desired effect \u2013 Rand concludes \u2013 Russia will end up paying the highest price in the confrontation with the US, but the latter and their allies will have to invest large resources to divert them from other purposes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_206980\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/red-square-moscow-russia.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206980\" class=\"wp-image-206980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/red-square-moscow-russia.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/red-square-moscow-russia.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/red-square-moscow-russia-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/red-square-moscow-russia-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by mnn\/Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As part of that strategy \u2013 the Rand Corporation\u2019s 2019 plan predicted \u2013 \u201cproviding lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia\u2019s greatest point of external vulnerability, but any increase in U.S.-provided weapons and military advice to Ukraine would have to be carefully calibrated to increase costs to Russia without provoking a much larger conflict in which Russia, because of proximity, would have significant advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely here \u2013 at what the Rand Corporation called \u201cRussia\u2019s greatest external vulnerability point,\u201d exploitable by arming Ukraine in a manner \u201ccalibrated to increase costs to Russia without provoking a much larger conflict\u201d \u2013 that the rupture occurred. Caught in the political, economic and military stranglehold that the US and NATO increasingly tightened, ignoring Moscow\u2019s repeated warnings and proposals for negotiation, Russia reacted with the military operation that destroyed more than 2,000 military facilities in Ukraine that were actually built and controlled not by Kiev\u2019s rulers but by US-NATO commands.<\/p>\n<p>The article that three years ago reported the Rand Corporation\u2019s plan ended with these words: <em>\u201cThe options in the plan are really only variants of the same war strategy, the price of which in terms of sacrifices and risks is paid by all of us\u201d.<\/em> We European people are paying it now, and we will pay it more and more dearly, if we continue to be expendable pawns in the US-NATO strategy.<\/p>\n<p><em>______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manlio-Dinucci-e1527784060457.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-112211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Manlio-Dinucci-e1527784060457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a> Manlio Dinucci is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, a geographer, and geopolitical scientist. In the 1980s, he directed the magazine <\/em>Lotta per la Pace<em> (born from &#8220;Appeal against the installation of nuclear missiles in Italy&#8221;) and was Executive Director for Italy of the <\/em>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War<em>, <strong>winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. <\/strong><\/em><em>His latest books are <\/em>L\u2019arte della guerra\/Annali della strategia USA\/NATO 1990-2016<em>, Zambon 2016; and <\/em>Guerra Nucleare Il Giorno Prima<em>, Zambon Editore; 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published in Italian on <\/em>Il Manifesto<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/manlio-dinucci\" >Manlio Dinucci<\/a>, <\/em>Global Research<em>, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to Originals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/ukraine-was-all-written-rand-corp-plan\/5773288\" > &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia\/5678456\" >&#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Mar 2022 &#8211; How to Destroy Russia&#8211;2019 Rand Corporation Report: \u201cOverextending and Unbalancing Russia.\u201d Rand is \u201ca global research organization developing solutions to [USA] policy challenges\u201d: it has an army of 1,800 researchers from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf: more than 25 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":206752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[867,1126,1050,278,961,70],"class_list":["post-206751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-anglo-america","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}