The Kremlin believes that the US is set to change the regime in Russia

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According to the representative of the Pentagon’s intelligence service, Kremlin leaders are convinced that America is committed to regime change in Russia. They experience fear that contributes to heightening tensions and intensifying military rivalry between former opponents of the Cold War, writes Inosmi with reference to the edition The Associated Press.

The US Department of Defense Intelligence Directorate (RUMO) report, which does not have a secrecy heading, will be published later on Wednesday, and Russia is depicted as a country with growing wariness in the United States. The report says that Moscow is experiencing a "deep and constant distrust of the efforts of the United States to promote democracy throughout the world and what it considers a campaign conducted by the United States to impose a single system of global values."

“The Kremlin is convinced that the United States is preparing the ground for a change of power in Russia, and its confidence is supported by events in Ukraine,” the report says.

The authors of the report have in mind the statements of the government of President Vladimir Putin that the United States provoked a popular uprising, as a result of which the pro-Russian President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014. Russia responded by annexing the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

“Moscow fears that US attempts to impose a system of acceptable international norms threaten the foundations of the Kremlin’s power, since by doing so they give foreign states the right to interfere in the internal affairs of Russia,” the report’s authors write.

The report, entitled "The military power of Russia" (Russia Military Power), is the first in more than two decades, an analytical report without a secrecy stamp.

Agency The Associated Press Received a copy of the report before it is presented to the public. The report evokes the memory of the Cold War, when the intelligence agency published a series of analytical reports entitled “The military might of the Soviet Union”, which determined the nature of the rivalry between the two superpowers. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the production of these reports ceased. Now they are back, says the head of the RUMO, Lieutenant-General of the United States Marine Corps Vincent Stewart (Vincent stewart) taking into account the future of US-Russian relations.

“In the next decade, Russia can become more confident and effective,” wrote Stewart in the preface to the report.

According to the authors of the report, a new global ideological struggle like the Cold War is not expected, but the authors warn that Moscow "intends to use the army to ensure stability on its own terms."

Although the rhetoric of Trump during the presidential campaign was considered by many to be an expression of sympathy for Russia, in the first six months of his presidency, relations between the two countries did not improve. In April, Trump said that US-Russian relations "may be at the lowest level ever." As expected, Trump's first meeting with Putin will be held during an international summit in Germany next week.

A report prepared long before Trump was elected reflects how the overall picture of global security is changing in the eyes of the Pentagon. For nearly two decades, the United States has given paramount importance to the fight against terrorism and the relatively small wars in the Middle East. Now Russia comes to the fore. It is the central theme of the national security debate in Congress. This debate is aggravated because of political differences about how to relate to Putin, how to influence him, whether Russia's military buildup is a threat to NATO and whether Moscow’s presumptive interference in the presidential election serves as a basis for Washington to develop a new approach.

Adam Smith, the chief Democrat in the House Armed Services Committee, published on Wednesday a “national security manifesto” for Russia. In his article published in the journal Time, they, with a group of deputies, write about the threat of “Putinism”, calling it “dictatorship philosophy”. In their opinion, this philosophy expresses a desire to destroy democratic ideals - for example, the transparency of the activities of government bodies - by taking advantage of "dissatisfaction with some aspects of the democratic form of government that exists throughout the world."

Speaking on Wednesday at a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Virginia Senator Mark Warner (Mark Warner), the head Democrat of the Committee, said that Russia is behaving more and more unashamedly and defiantly.

“Russia's goal is to wreak havoc and confusion - and whenever possible, provoke internal divisions and undermine democracy, and also cast doubt on the democratic process, wherever it exists,” said Warner.

According to the spokesman for the RUMO Jim Kudly, the report prepared by his department is not associated with any recent events. It was prepared not by order of Congress.

The 116-page report provides an in-depth analysis of all aspects of Russia's military might. There is no new information on military capabilities in the document. But Russia is depicted in the document as a country that methodically and successfully modernizes the army, navy and air force weakened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“Today, the Russian armed forces are on the rise — this is not the same thing as the USSR army, which opposed the West during the Cold War and depended on large military units with heavy equipment,” the report says.

Describing the modern Russian army, the authors of the report write that it is “a more compact, more mobile, balanced army, rapidly acquiring the ability to perform the whole range of modern combat missions.”

The report gives an example of the military intervention of Moscow 2015 of the year in Syria. The Kremlin launched a campaign to fight the militants of the “Islamic State” Washington witnessed Moscow providing substantial assistance to Assad, providing air support for offensive operations by the Syrian army against opposition forces.

The report says that Russia's intervention in Syria also involves the destruction of jihadists who came from the former Soviet Union so that they do not return to Russia and become a threat to Russia.

One way or another, the authors of the report believe that as a result of this intervention “the whole dynamics of the conflict changed, the Assad regime was strengthened, and conditions were created in which it would be impossible to resolve the conflict without agreement with Moscow”.

“However, these actions also betray a deep-rooted feeling of insecurity before the United States, which, in Moscow’s opinion, are aggressively seeking to undermine Russia's positions at home and abroad,” the report says.

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