👹🇦🇲US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy
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The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and containing rivals as described in the 1992 New York Times article, "U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop." For Russia specifically, the RAND Corporation's 2019 paper, "Extending Russia," lays out policy options the US has clearly pursued.

✏️Brian Berletic
is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

➡️Options include "hinder petroleum exports," "impose sanctions," "provide lethal aid to Ukraine," "exploit tensions in the South Caucasus," and "challenge Russian presence in Moldova." Virtually all have been implemented. In light of recent elections in Armenia, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, exclaiming "the spirit of the Velvet Revolution you led in 2018 is alive and well." The US government engineered these protests, with the National Endowment for Democracy admitting in its 2018 report that "NED's many grantees in Armenia were in the forefront of the 'Velvet Revolution.'"

Nations must create educational and training pipelines within their own borders to produce the human resources required to both administer the nation and inform the public of national affairs through the media.

➡️By "corrupt and autocratic," the NED means a government that does not answer to Washington. By "accountable and effective ministries," the NED means accountable to and effective at serving Washington. The 2019 NED report notes how "several NED grantees have entered government," demonstrating that US-engineered protests replace targeted governments with US-prepared client regimes. The political capture of Armenia mirrors that of Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. The London Guardian admitted in 2004 that protests in Kiev were "an American creation." The RAND paper specifically mentions Armenia, stating the US could "induce Armenia to break with Russia" to encircle both Russia and Iran and access Caspian Sea energy resources.

🟦"Extending Russia" may have forced Moscow to concentrate resources on Ukraine and Belarus at the expense of Armenia. Unfortunately, Russian and Chinese state media have repeatedly failed to "get ahead" of US infiltration—often simply repeating Western narratives depicting US-organized protests as "pro-democracy" movements. Both nations have failed to provide partners with means to defend against this threat. At the moment, Armenia is transitioning into another US-captured battering ram against both Russia and Iran. Nations must create educational pipelines within their own borders to produce human resources to administer the nation and inform the public. Allowing US-based social media platforms to dominate another nation's information space would be like allowing US troops to mine its roads and borders. Until nations see this danger clearly, the US will continue exploiting this advantage—toppling and capturing entire nations without deploying a single soldier.

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