Monday, April 13, 2015

Andrew Korybko — The Hoagland-Blinken Doctrine Is Washington’s Updated Plan For Central Asia


Russia's near abroad, pipleistan, and securing US control over Eurasia, or at least preventing Russia and China controlling it.

Oriental Review
The Hoagland-Blinken Doctrine Is Washington’s Updated Plan For Central Asia (I)

The Hoagland-Blinken Doctrine Is Washington’s Updated Plan For Central Asia (II)
Andrew Korybko

See also

US Wages Geopolitical Warfare Against Russia in Central Asia and Caucasus
Steven MacMillan

3 comments:

Dan Lynch said...

Thanks for posting this.
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I only read the first part, it sounded like imperialism-as-usual.
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It's laughable that the US claims to stand for human rights and democracy abroad when we lack it here at home, and we support the horrible governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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I wonder if Hoagland and Blinken actually believe their own bullshit?

Tom Hickey said...

As George Friedman of Stratfor admits, US policy based on realpolitik is cynical, but it is what it is.

The interesting thing is that the geopolitical experts that run the deep state and determine US foreign policy, including military policy, based on realpolitik

I was just reading an article in the Cedar Rapids Gazette that Iowa voters prefer a nuclear deal with Iran by two-thirds majority, while the GOP candidates are against it — although Rand Paul said he is "keeping an open mind on it."

The US public getting tired of endless war, which why the deep state has adopted a policy of "leading from behind" by using covert operations and proxies. The hawks are blasting this as "weakness."

Obama is sort of feckless about it. While he has been pursuing a strategy of leading from behind, the recent display of exercises with US troops near the border with Russia is a show of force that the hawks are demanding. Of course, they want the US to arm Ukraine, so this may just be a ploy to offset that demand.

But it is destabilizing and it's going to get the US public thinking of nuclear destruction again. And both Russia and China really are arming up.

Dan Lynch said...

If you ask me, "realpolitik" is just another name for psychopathy. Some psychopaths are just worse than others.

The Saker had an interesting post today about how Russia abstained on the UNSC vote to embargo the Houthis. I guess you could call that realpolitik -- Yemen is of no vital interest to Russia, and the Sauds will prolly lose the war regardless of the embargo, so why should Russia antagonize the powers that be by vetoing the embargo?