{"id":30544,"date":"2018-10-26T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30544"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:09:43","slug":"the-self-blinding-russia-prism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-self-blinding-russia-prism\/","title":{"rendered":"The self-blinding Russia prism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-self-blinding-russia-prism\/article23275058.ece\"><strong>The self-blinding Russia prism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Russia collusion\u2019 narrative in the U.S. has rendered any diplomacy between the two countries impossible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Push for tougher retaliation against Russia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russia as main adversary:<\/strong> With two documents in recent months, the National Security Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the U.S. has declared Russia as its main adversary, slightly above China in the order, and left little room open for reconciliation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nuclear first strike threshold lowered:<\/strong> The NPR declares that the era of great power rivalry is back, and has lowered America\u2019s threshold for a nuclear first strike, citing Russia as the main reason<\/li>\n<li><strong>Defence moves:<\/strong> All-round modernisation of its nuclear infrastructure, by upgrading delivery systems, weapons and defence systems, and widespread battlefield deployment of tactical nuclear weapons are part of the new posture<\/li>\n<li><strong>Huge costs:<\/strong> All of this is estimated to cost more than a trillion dollars in inflation adjusted dollars, assuming no cost overruns, over the next 30 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dangerous obsession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The current obsession of the American elite with Russia is still counterproductive and potentially dangerous because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It disenfranchises U.S. citizens and delegitimizes its democratic process: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By repeatedly asserting that it is impossible to determine the extent of Russian imprint on the Sanders movement or Mr. Trump\u2019s victory, the onus has been shifted to any citizen critical of the American system to first prove that she is not acting on behalf of Russia or, even worse, she is not a Russian bot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It has rendered any diplomacy between the nuclear rivals impossible: <\/strong>The \u2018Russia collusion\u2019 commentaries presuppose that unless proven otherwise any contact between a Trump official and a Russian is illegitimate and treason.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weakening the political system:<\/strong> When a democratically elected President\u2019s authority to pursue diplomacy is undermined, the U.S.\u2019s political system is weakened and the world becomes a more dangerous place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russia prism has not merely bent perspective, but blinded vision in America. Perhaps, deliberately and conveniently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-blinding Russia prism The \u2018Russia collusion\u2019 narrative in the U.S. has rendered any diplomacy between the two countries impossible. Push for tougher retaliation against Russia\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Russia as main adversary: With two documents in recent months, the National Security Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the U.S. has declared Russia as its main adversary,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-self-blinding-russia-prism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The self-blinding Russia prism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704844309},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}