{"id":312952,"date":"2021-07-31T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/attacks-on-us-officials-prove-russia-is-our-enemy-not-our-friend\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:22:48","slug":"attacks-on-us-officials-prove-russia-is-our-enemy-not-our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/attacks-on-us-officials-prove-russia-is-our-enemy-not-our-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"#Attacks on US officials prove Russia is our enemy, not our friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Attacks on US officials prove Russia is our enemy, not our friend<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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President Biden is on a mission to try yet another \u201creset\u201d with Russia. He\u2019s reached out to President Vladimir Putin for a summit that took place in Geneva in June, canceled the sanctions on Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and refused to blame the Russian state for the devastating cyberattacks on our food and gasoline reserves, fingering \u201cRussia-based\u201d criminal hackers instead. But few attacks of any kind emanate from Russia without the Kremlin\u2019s permission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Putin is ignoring Biden\u2019s overtures and instead escalating a low-grade warfare against America. He seems to even be inflicting brain damage on some of our fellow Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since Biden assumed office in January, more than twenty US diplomats stationed in Vienna, Austria \u2014 the hotbed of spy operational activities \u2014 have reported<\/a> unexplained health issues. The debilitating symptoms, including dizziness, vertigo, nausea, severe headaches, sudden sensation of heat, cognitive difficulties and even possibly permanent brain damage \u2014 are consistent with what has been dubbed \u201cHavana syndrome.\u201d The difficult-to-diagnose ailment first struck US officials in 2016 in the Cuban capital, and since then, the victim list has grown to app<\/a>roximately 130 intelligence officers, military personnel and other American officials, mostly stationed overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More than twenty US diplomats stationed at the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria have reported unexplained health issues, otherwise known as \u201cHavana Syndrome.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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The CIA has mounted a special task force, under the leadership of a veteran undercover officer who successfully hunted down Osama bin Laden, to investigate what CIA Director William Burns privately called \u201cattacks\u201d and identify the culprit. The suspected cause of the disabling illness, according to the US National Academy of Science<\/a>s, Engineering, and Medicine, is \u201cdirected, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy,\u201d though it could also be multifrequency sonic or acoustic weapons. Moscow is easily the lead suspect \u2014 and, given the harm done to Americans, Biden should toughen his approach to Russia unless evidence emerges that someone else committed this heinous act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which is unlikely. Here is why Russia almost certainly did it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russia has the capability, doctrine and intent to use nonlethal weapons against US personnel and physical assets. For decades, the Russians have been researching and developing what they call \u201cweapons based on new physical principles,\u201d to degrade, damage, disrupt or destroy infrastructure and equipment, such as satellites, computers and other devices, in preparation for war with a technologically superior adversary such as the United States. Russia\u2019s development of directed energy weapons (DEW) is highly advanced. Members of congressional intelligence committees were briefed in April on Russia\u2019s suspected targeting of US military officers in Syria with directed energy weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using \u201cnonlethal weapons\u201d that can produce debilitating but not deadly effects, like the one American officials experienced in Vienna, is consistent with the Russian doctrine. Moscow has declared the United States its primary security threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Putin is not looking for a \u201creset.\u201d Rather, he is looking to \u201cknock the adversary\u2019s teeth out,\u201d as he said in May. <\/figcaption>
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During the Cold War, Russia\u2019s predecessor, the Soviet Union, routinely used nonlethal weapons against American government personnel. From 1953 to 1976, the Soviets were bombarding the US Embassy in Moscow with low-level microwave bursts. The intent was not in that case to harm Americans but to steal secrets by intercepting US communications that took place in the embassy. The Soviets used microwaves to activate a microphone they had concealed in the Great Seal of the United States gifted to a US ambassador. The spy \u201cbug\u201d hung over the ambassador\u2019s desk, picking up classified conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The official Russian government press acknowledges the existence of nonlethal means to incapacitate the enemy by \u201cblinding\u201d or \u201cboiling\u201d them, literally heating up their bodies. The Russian military justifies this approach as an effective option to achieve \u201cobjectives with minimal losses and destruction.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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To unsettle and frustrate American intelligence officers stationed in Russia during the first Obama administration, the Kremlin\u2019s spies broke into their homes<\/a>, poisoned their pets and left their homes in disarray \u2014 and even deposited \u201cgifts\u201d in unflushed toilets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A judo master and \u201cformer\u201d spy operative, Putin believes in keeping the adversary off balance at all times. Given that he has likely escalated the fight with the United States by possibly giving American officials permanent brain injury, it is high time for Biden to accept a harsh reality: Putin is not looking for a \u201creset.\u201d Rather, he is looking to \u201cknock the adversary\u2019s teeth out,\u201d as he said in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden must stop playing footsie with the Russian master spy and suspend relations with Russia until US investigators rule out Moscow as the source of the Havana syndrome attacks. Until then, a \u201creset\u201d or any other overtures to the Kremlin must be off the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rebekah Koffler is a former DIA intelligence officer and the author of \u201cPutin\u2019s Playbook: Russia\u2019s Secret Plan to Defeat America<\/a>\u201d (Regnery), out now.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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