Russia is already a major power on the world.
It has a very big military strenght
Almost all middle asian sources are draining to RF and doesn't come enough. Therefore Russia is in Syria.
Therefore attacked to Afghanistan, Chechenia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Rusiia has a Pan-Slavist idea comes from its history. On this idea, every country is enemy prevents Russia's way.
Topic: Goal of re-establishing Russia as a major world power. (Read 478 times)
Russia has always been a "major" power, if nothing else they control the largest portion of land of any country in the world and the second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons - not that it's an admirable achievement. Russians have no need to fear anyone except their own leadership.
Well put. Indeed people of many great countries, not only people of Russia, have the biggest and worst enemy in their own leadership. But to solve this problem is not as easy as it seems. When you change the leadership you might get even worse.
If Russia want to re-establish itself as a major world power, then the wealth and assets of all the oligarchs such as Kerimov and Alakbarov must be confiscated, and these people must be locked up in gulags for their past crimes. It is not a practical solution, and therefore I think that Russia will never become a superpower again.
Russia is a country with an excellent military strength, and one of the most fearful country in military, not like other country that exposed and show their military strength and equipment, Russia is very conceal about their military, but their military is one of best in the world
i guess they might have plans for something like the Soviet Union again.
Show me the evidence of such ideology of expansion, similar to Jew Communist "export of Revolution".
Russia has always been a "major" power, if nothing else they control the largest portion of land of any country in the world and the second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons - not that it's an admirable achievement. Russians have no need to fear anyone except their own leadership.
Yes you nailed it and the best part is they don't showcase their weapons to everyone like USA does so we don't have any idea about the exact strength of Russia and i guess they might have plans for something like the Soviet Union again.
Russia has always been a "major" power, if nothing else they control the largest portion of land of any country in the world and the second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons - not that it's an admirable achievement. Russians have no need to fear anyone except their own leadership.
becoming popular not only in USSR but also in other countries
Ohh.. where it is, the USSR?
It seems like Russia is having a comeback. For many years they suffered economically, slowly they are getting on their feet now. With leader like Putin, who is becoming popular not only in USSR but also in other countries.Hope they can be a good catalyst for change,for the common good of this planet.
American intelligence officers are trained to tackle tough targets.
But there are tough targets, and then there's Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plays his cards so closely that it's hard for his own advisers to divine what he's thinking, says Gregory Treverton, chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
"Putin is so isolated that the chances that he might miscalculate and do something rash are top of my list for things I worry about," says Treverton. "I am fond of distinguishing between puzzles — those things that have an answer, though we may not know it — and mysteries, those things that are iffy and contingent. And so how Putin is going to behave is presumably a mystery, and probably even a mystery to Putin."
Treverton is not alone in this view.
Retired Adm. James Stavridis, commander of NATO forces from 2009 to 2013, says Putin is exceptional in how little he telegraphs.
"He certainly has a cabinet of close advisers," Stavridis says."But at the end of the day, the strategic terrain is not on a map somewhere — it's in between Vladimir Putin's ears."
That makes it hard for the CIA and other spy agencies charged with tracking Russian military and economic assets — and with anticipating what Moscow might do next on the conflict in Syria, tensions in Crimea and a wide range of other matters.
Stavridis, now dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, points to a couple of factors that make Putin such a difficult target.
One is the degree of control he has amassed in his 17 years as either prime minister or president of Russia. You have to look to North Korea, Stavridis says, or to Fidel Castro's long reign in Cuba to find another ruler who wields such absolute power.
The tools of espionage — phone intercepts, satellite imagery and more — can sometimes overcome such disadvantages, but may be of limited use against Putin: He's a trained spy himself.
Vladimir Putin joined the KGB in 1975, and was sent to Dresden in East Germany in order to spy on the West during the Cold War. There he learned both near-flawless German and near-flawless spycraft.
"Russia has always had a very strong counterintelligence capability, and Putin would be well-schooled in this," says John McLaughlin, who served as acting director of the CIA in 2004, during Putin's first stint as president. McLaughlin says the aides in whom Putin might confide are mostly ex-KGB, too. "The inner circle there would be very conscious of how they communicate, conscious of who meets whom. So it's a tough environment for intelligence."
But McLauglin adds that if you can't peer into Putin's mind, you still can analyze the realities he's grappling with, which may inform his actions.
"In the case of Russia, you would look at the effect of sanctions, which have been very heavy on them," McLaughlin says. "The fact that the ruble is now at kind of an all-time low, the fact that they have a serious capital-flight problem."
There's also the fact that Putin has spoken openly about his overarching goal of re-establishing Russia as a major world power. It's up to the CIA and other spy agencies to figure out how he plans next to go about it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/10/469879309/spy-vs-spies-why-deciphering-putin-is-so-hard-for-u-s-intelligence
But there are tough targets, and then there's Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plays his cards so closely that it's hard for his own advisers to divine what he's thinking, says Gregory Treverton, chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
"Putin is so isolated that the chances that he might miscalculate and do something rash are top of my list for things I worry about," says Treverton. "I am fond of distinguishing between puzzles — those things that have an answer, though we may not know it — and mysteries, those things that are iffy and contingent. And so how Putin is going to behave is presumably a mystery, and probably even a mystery to Putin."
Treverton is not alone in this view.
Retired Adm. James Stavridis, commander of NATO forces from 2009 to 2013, says Putin is exceptional in how little he telegraphs.
"He certainly has a cabinet of close advisers," Stavridis says."But at the end of the day, the strategic terrain is not on a map somewhere — it's in between Vladimir Putin's ears."
That makes it hard for the CIA and other spy agencies charged with tracking Russian military and economic assets — and with anticipating what Moscow might do next on the conflict in Syria, tensions in Crimea and a wide range of other matters.
Stavridis, now dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, points to a couple of factors that make Putin such a difficult target.
One is the degree of control he has amassed in his 17 years as either prime minister or president of Russia. You have to look to North Korea, Stavridis says, or to Fidel Castro's long reign in Cuba to find another ruler who wields such absolute power.
The tools of espionage — phone intercepts, satellite imagery and more — can sometimes overcome such disadvantages, but may be of limited use against Putin: He's a trained spy himself.
Vladimir Putin joined the KGB in 1975, and was sent to Dresden in East Germany in order to spy on the West during the Cold War. There he learned both near-flawless German and near-flawless spycraft.
"Russia has always had a very strong counterintelligence capability, and Putin would be well-schooled in this," says John McLaughlin, who served as acting director of the CIA in 2004, during Putin's first stint as president. McLaughlin says the aides in whom Putin might confide are mostly ex-KGB, too. "The inner circle there would be very conscious of how they communicate, conscious of who meets whom. So it's a tough environment for intelligence."
But McLauglin adds that if you can't peer into Putin's mind, you still can analyze the realities he's grappling with, which may inform his actions.
"In the case of Russia, you would look at the effect of sanctions, which have been very heavy on them," McLaughlin says. "The fact that the ruble is now at kind of an all-time low, the fact that they have a serious capital-flight problem."
There's also the fact that Putin has spoken openly about his overarching goal of re-establishing Russia as a major world power. It's up to the CIA and other spy agencies to figure out how he plans next to go about it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/10/469879309/spy-vs-spies-why-deciphering-putin-is-so-hard-for-u-s-intelligence
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