The intelligence department of the US Department of Defense has prepared for hearings in the Senate Report on global threats in 2021. It is published on the website of the Senate Committee on the Affairs of the Armed Forces, reports haqqin.az.
Considerable attention in the report is paid to threats, which are posted for the United States and their allies China and Russia.
The document says that the world is experiencing the ERU of the “Global Strategic Competition”, in which the main rivals of the United States – China and Russia are developing funds to challenge the US military superiority. In addition to military measures, we are talking about actions in the “gray zone”, such as the use of proxy troops and mercenaries, cyber attacks, manipulation with information, undermining the economic relics of rivals and so on.
Russian Armed Forces are named in the document as a potential threat to the existence of the United States, as well as a tool for supporting the impact in countries around the perimeter of Russian borders, with which Moscow may challenge the global leadership of Washington.
“Moscow is considering the United States and NATO as an essential threat to Russia’s security, its geopolitical ambitions and for the current ruling regime. Moscow uses a number of political, economic, diplomatic, intelligence, social and military funds, while avoiding direct conflict, in order to To compete with the West, “- said in the document.
The report describes in detail about the modernization of nuclear and non-nuclear Russian forces. In particular, Russia is expected to seriously increase its nuclear arsenal at the expense of non-strategic tools.
The US Defense Ministry report refers to the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh and notes that Russia did not solve the direct intervention in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as in Belarus, but it is trying to preserve influence in the region by other methods – in particular, accommodation Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh are regarded as an increase in the influence of Moscow in the Caucasus. The threat of military force remains the main lever of Russia’s influence on Ukraine.
The authors of the report come to the conclusion that Russia is currently increasingly interested in a direct encounter with the United States, however, will not refuse to confrontation with the West. “The Kremlin is likely to try not to provoke Washington, but maybe it will be convinced that the United States interferes with Russian domestic politics or otherwise threaten Russian strategic interests.”
Special attention to the report is given to attempts to influence Russia on the internal politics of their neighbors and NATO member countries, as well as an information campaign against the background of the coronavirus epidemic, “using it to conduct an information struggle to undermine the governments of the West countries.”