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MOSCOW’S top military commander has urged Russia to "create threats" against its Western adversaries or face being attacked by the United States.
Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, said Washington had deployed a secret strategy to destabilise its enemies by sparking street protests and civil disobedience before launching military strikes. And the military chief Russia had to “respond to the threat by creating a threat”, suggesting cyber-attacks could provide “the possibility of remote, hidden influence”. In his annual speech about Russia’s military strategy to Kremlin defence chiefs he said: “Information technologies are becoming some of the most promising weapons.”
Gerasimov’s extraordinary claims suggest US attempts to topple President Maduro in Venezuela have unsettled the Kremlin and raise fears that Russian might be planning a response to the growing crisis in South American.
He alleged Washington and it allies had “set out an aggressive vector in their foreign policy” and warned they were developing new weapons and “colour revolutions” - the name Moscow uses for uprisings in former Soviet states such as Ukraine and Georgia, which it believes were orchestrated by the West.
Gen Gerasimov claimed the new Pentagon strategy had been named Trojan Horse.
He said: “Its essence is the active use of the protest potential of the fifth column in the interests of destabilising the situation with simultaneous strikes of high precision weapons against the most important facilities.”
General Gerasimov said “unexpectedness, decisiveness and consistency” were important to Russia’s strategic actions.
He said: “Acting quickly, we must pre-empt the enemy with preventative measures, identify his weak spots and create the threat to him of unacceptable damage.”
He told military chiefs increasing US military presence near Russian borders and Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty meant Moscow had to develop new weapons.
He said: “The policy of our Western partners forces us to respond to the threat by creating a threat.”
US officials dismissed General Gerasimov’s comments as a smokescreen designed to hide subversive Russian activity.
Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said: “This is sheer Russian disinformation to cover up their own subversive acts in places like Syria and eastern Europe and Ukraine.
“There is no such thing as a Pentagon programme called Trojan Horse.”
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Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, said Washington had deployed a secret strategy to destabilise its enemies by sparking street protests and civil disobedience before launching military strikes. And the military chief Russia had to “respond to the threat by creating a threat”, suggesting cyber-attacks could provide “the possibility of remote, hidden influence”. In his annual speech about Russia’s military strategy to Kremlin defence chiefs he said: “Information technologies are becoming some of the most promising weapons.”
Gerasimov’s extraordinary claims suggest US attempts to topple President Maduro in Venezuela have unsettled the Kremlin and raise fears that Russian might be planning a response to the growing crisis in South American.
He alleged Washington and it allies had “set out an aggressive vector in their foreign policy” and warned they were developing new weapons and “colour revolutions” - the name Moscow uses for uprisings in former Soviet states such as Ukraine and Georgia, which it believes were orchestrated by the West.
Gen Gerasimov claimed the new Pentagon strategy had been named Trojan Horse.
He said: “Its essence is the active use of the protest potential of the fifth column in the interests of destabilising the situation with simultaneous strikes of high precision weapons against the most important facilities.”
General Gerasimov said “unexpectedness, decisiveness and consistency” were important to Russia’s strategic actions.
He said: “Acting quickly, we must pre-empt the enemy with preventative measures, identify his weak spots and create the threat to him of unacceptable damage.”
He told military chiefs increasing US military presence near Russian borders and Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty meant Moscow had to develop new weapons.
He said: “The policy of our Western partners forces us to respond to the threat by creating a threat.”
US officials dismissed General Gerasimov’s comments as a smokescreen designed to hide subversive Russian activity.
Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said: “This is sheer Russian disinformation to cover up their own subversive acts in places like Syria and eastern Europe and Ukraine.
“There is no such thing as a Pentagon programme called Trojan Horse.”
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