While you are here accustomed to such a concept as hybrid war, and mold it to place and out of place (here one YouTube historian found hybrid wars already during the time of tsarist Russia), a new era has come.
When the so-called sanctions become an instrument of military action.
They can hide behind anything, with any words - from politics to protecting minorities, but when sanctions are directed directly against the military-industrial complex of another country, this, in fact, is already a declaration of war - for the time being conditionally peaceful means.
Undermining the defense capability of an unwanted country - why aren't you fighting?
What difference does it make whether to dump a megaton on a military plant or impose the sanctions of the world gendarme on it?
No.
Is that the loss among the population at the moment is lower.
And I do not understand people who still have illusions that Russia and America do not have a war yet.
She walks, and the one who says no is either stupid or on the payroll.
War has different faces, as the writer Aleksievich, winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize, told us.
Today these are sanctions.
For example, at the end of the day, the God-saved, but not saved, Trump administration has prepared a draft sanctions against the Russian Defense Ministry.
It is unlikely that Trump personally finally decided to hit the headquarters - this is a rather long, well thought out, deeply layered process.
As we already know, those people who were responsible for the war with Trump acted in general without much regard for the almost former president.
Many people.
With and without shoulder straps.
What we have?
These are the data: "The United States may impose sanctions against the Russian Ministry of Defense, a number of defense and civilian industry enterprises, one of the federal state unitary enterprises associated with the administration of Vladimir Putin, as well as the forensic center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod region."
This directly comes from the draft sanctions list, which is being prepared by the POTUS administration.
Of course, it is surprising to be on the list of the EKTs of the Nizhny Novgorod region - it seems that according to the documents they have everything like everyone else - drug expertise, traceology, the creation of a DNA base, potent drugs.
Did you say something wrong about the "poisoning" of Navalny?
Or Skripals?
Then it is pure policy - that it would be dangerous to work as an expert in Russia.
And not just an "expert" at some free radio station who is never responsible for the market, but a real professional in a narrow circle of problems.
Are they preparing us that there will only be more problems and there will be no one to solve them?
Perhaps this is collateral damage - collateral damage, of course, but the very fact that American intelligence and the military care about the modest city internal affairs department is surprising.
They have a stronger and broader swing: 28 Russian organizations of the aviation, rocket-space and nuclear industries, instrument and engine building, as well as scientific centers.
This means that the list may include institutions of the state corporation Rosatom, which participated in the creation of advanced weapons, two enterprises of Roscosmos, as well as manufacturers of helicopters and aircraft engines, developers and suppliers of aviation materials and air traffic management systems.
If sanctions are approved, US companies will need to obtain a special license to continue any contacts with Russian enterprises.
That is, this is an Iranian model, but so far without Israeli aircraft raids on nuclear facilities.
Do you really think that Israel is threatening Iran with nuclear bombing without any US involvement?
But they threaten and fly.
Because they can.
In Russia, they cannot yet, so it is necessary to disable and paralyze the work in other ways.
There are a lot of them in our intertwined world of economy.
For example, the State Department announced the sanctions against three Russian organizations (Aviazapchast, Elekon JSC and Nilco Group) under the law on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
This means that any US government structure is prohibited from dealing with these companies.
Chaos and collapse are the main goals of our partners.
They are not satisfied with any other Russia, except for the one that lies in ruin and asks to send a little more chicken legs (although thanks for them - they came in handy then).
And even more so, they do not need Russia, which can snap back and dare to have its own opinion, backed by military might.
This means that there will be more and more sanctions, there will also be a lot of pretexts for them - the fake machine is working, local policemen are also working on creating "meanings" and running to the very famous Washington regional committee with complaints and suggestions.
Mainly on sanctions.
Well, a little over a jar of jam and a pack of cookies.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.