04.06.2019, Washington.
The RAND Corporation, a US global policy think tank, published an economic war plan against Russia, RIA FAN news agency reports on June 3.
The plan offers recommendations to the US government regarding “non-violent tactics to destabilize Russia”. This can be achieved by targeting Russia’s export revenues. The focus should be on the international energy market, says the report. In order to achieve this, the US government is encouraged to increase domestic energy production. Also, the EU countries should have more opportunities to obtain oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from other states.
The expansion of economic sanctions against Russia is the second most important tactic, RAND’s specialists suggest. In order to increase their effectiveness, it is necessary to ensure that as many other countries as possible join them.
Sanctions against Russia were imposed after the Crimean reunification in 2014. From that point on, they have been applied for purely economic reasons and are expanding. As for Russia’s energy supply of the EU, US politicians have stated directly on several occasions that Russia does not have the right to supply natural gas via the Nord Stream-2 pipeline, which is currently under construction, because, in their opinion, this will allow Moscow to exert political pressure on Europe.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
