#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
The doc for the 1st time provides ofcl confirmation & codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid #war against the West. #Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for #Ukraine & disrupt domestic #politics in the #UnitedStates & European countries, thru #propaganda campaigns supporting #isolationist & #extremist policies….It is also seeking to refashion #geopolitics, drawing closer to #China, #Iran & #NorthKorea in an attempt to shift the current balance of #power.
I've said repeatedly that no one will ever give up nuclear weapons again after Ukraine - and that salvaging any hope of nuclear proliferation control was one of the many reasons Russia needs to lose this war.
Putin knows this, of course, but obviously doesn't care. Now they (and China) have functionally ended sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, and it strikes me as rather unlikely they'd tolerate a new such regime against any other dictatorial state trying to insure its longevity through nuclear weapons.
The #European parts will probably be reunited with Europe, culturally and economically speaking.
In between? Warlords, I guess.
This is why I'm also gravely concerned about the eventual Fall of The House of #Putin aka the #RussianFederation. When the #SovieetUnion collapsed, many arms went "missing."
Also, the civilian use of nuclear energy can eventually lead to atomic weapons, as #NorthKorea and #Iran have shown.
India, Pakistan attempted to interfere in Canada's elections: CSIS
In the case of the 2019 election, CSIS said the Canadian government conducted what it called a "threat reduction measure" ahead of the vote, meant to "reduce the foreign interference threat posed by the Government of Pakistan."
"The situation was monitored and assessed to have effectively reduced the threat of interference," CSIS wrote.
...am, as yet, undecided regarding the potential threat of a surveillance state, as in #China, #NorthKorea, or #Russia, but things cannot continue as they are. The really stolen (from #HillaryClinton) #Election2016 in the #US should be a definite call for action.
However, ending end-to-end #encryption (#E2E) is certainly taking it way too far. There must be a society left worth fighting for.