Puppet Masters
"When we are looking at the strategy of the US towards Russia, it is to force Russia to capitulate," said Joaquin Flores, director of the Center for Syncretic Studies in Belgrade, Serbia.
"Ultimately, one thing they would like to do is to create a permanent war zone or a permanent area of armed conflict right in its historical sphere of influence," Flores told Press TV on Friday.
The US is also looking to "create chaos within its economic system which is aimed at getting different elements of the elites in economic power circles in Russia to turn against the government and to side with the US interest," he indicated.
On Thursday, US President Barack Obama signed a new Russian sanctions bill into law over the crisis in Ukraine.
Ties between United States and Russia have deteriorated over the crisis in Ukraine. The US and its allies accuse Moscow of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of the pro-Russian forces. Russia, however, denies the accusation.
Tensions between Washington and Moscow began to escalate in April after the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea seceded from Ukraine and reunited with the Russian Federation following a referendum a month earlier.
"The US has increased its bellicosity, it is on a war footing and it is definitely trying to create the sense in the international community and within the military-industrial-complex that war is on the horizon," Flores concluded.
Reader Comments
If after all these months they haven't figured out that what they're doing isn't working, it's basically game over. They have no strategy. They have no surprises to come up with. Putin does. So it's just a matter of time.
They've even ensured that the collapse of the dollar will be faster, thanks to their counter-productive sanctions. All they can do now is look for more scams to make the dollar appear to be a currency and not just trash. Once they run out of these scams, it's just downhil and beyond.
Even as a kid I thought mankind must sooner or later destroy itself by its own stupidity. It's fun to watch how the US is marching towards that end.
Best consult the elders on how to live life in poverty like they did in ww2 because you will need those lessons on how to go 'without'.
US has gone crazy for a while now. Demented sounds coming out of their politicians, insane decrees, as Nero was Burning Rome, now psychos burn the US until nothing but cinders remain.