{"id":14622,"date":"2015-11-21T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2015-11-21T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:47:30","slug":"guile-replaces-the-stick-washingtons-new-approach-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14622","title":{"rendered":"Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington\u2019s New Approach To Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington\u2019s New Approach To Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n

Washington has learned that threats and coercion do not work against Russia. All the threats have done is to build Putin\u2019s public support to astronomical levels and to unify Russia against the West\u2019s assault. This is a failed policy that Washington is abandoning as Washington sees a new opportunity in Russia\u2019s desire for Western cooperation, not only against ISIL but also on a wide range of other issues.<\/p>\n

Realizing that guile can be more effective than the stick, the West is moving toward drawing Russia into the Western system by offering a coalition against ISIL. Once Russia is in a coalition against ISIL, Russia will lose control. This is Washington\u2019s strategy for counteracting the initiative that Russia seized in Syria.<\/p>\n

Once Russia is in a coalition against ISIL, Russia will have to make compromises. Putin will be told that Russia can have ISIL, but Russia has to turn Assad\u2019s fate over to the West. If Putin balks, the Western media will blame Putin for topedoing the war against ISIL.<\/p>\n

Getting rid of ISIL is more important to the Russian government than saving Assad. If a jihadist Islamic State is established, there will be a base for exporting turmoil into the Muslim regions of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

Once Russia accepts \u201ccooperation\u201d with the West against ISIL, more \u201ccooperation\u201d will be used to gradually erode bit by bit Russia\u2019s independence and to bring Russian policy in alignment with Washington\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Many in Russia believe that the Paris attack proves that Putin was right and that the West now realizes this and will accept Russian leadership in the fight against ISIL. This belief is delusional. Washington will take advantage of Russian desire for Western cooperation and will use this desire in order to bring Russia under Western influence, thus reestablishing Washington\u2019s hegemony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington\u2019s New Approach To Russia Washington has learned that threats and coercion do not work against Russia. All the threats have done is to build Putin\u2019s public support to astronomical levels and to unify Russia against the West\u2019s assault. This is a failed policy that Washington is abandoning as Washington sees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10692,1467,1239,445,446,447,2951,660,694,776,793,827,865],"class_list":["post-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-guile","tag-hegemony","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14623,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions\/14623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}