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Russia’s new focus on the Arctic can be compared with the annexation of Crimea, says Rogozin in a video that
was published April 20th.”

And Americans out there, Rogozin thinks the loss of Alaska is not acceptable either.

According to this piece in the Alaska Dispatch News published on March 27, 2015:

Lurking in the Russian plan for its Far East is a sinister figure who believes that Alaska is a legitimate part of
Russian manifest destiny – Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

It was betrayal, Rogozin believes, that led to the sale of what is rightfully Russia’s to the United States. In the
forward to Ivan Mironov’s book, “Alaska Betrayed and Sold,” Rogozin equates the sale of Alaska to another
betrayal: Mikhail Gorbochev’s and Boris Yeltsin’s breaking up the former Soviet Union.

Rogozin is not a crackpot. He’s the equivalent of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and one of President Putin’s
right-hand men.
He’s on the U.S. State Department list of individuals responsible for destabilizing the Ukraine among other
nefarious accomplishments intended to reunite the former Soviet Union into the Russian Federation.

And, he’s the newly appointed head of Arctic policy for Russia, likely forming a new government entity designed
to carry out Putin’s militarization and development policy in the Arctic.

If I lived in the Baltics, I would be a bit more than nervous, for as Secretary Kerry has warned us these guys live in
the 19th century, and we remember what that century eventually delivered to the world in the 20th.

“You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely
trumped up pre-text,” Kerry told the CBS program “Face the Nation.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-kerry/kerry-condemns-russias-incredible-act-of-
aggression-in-ukraine-idUSBREA210DG20140302

Well unless you do.

Parsing Russia’s New Military Doctrine: NATO as a Core Threat

2015-01-08 By Richard Weitz

The new Russian military doctrine adopted shortly before Christmas [available on the Kremlin website makes
somewhat clearer Russian leaders’ current threat perceptions and national security priorities.
This iteration, which more accurately reflects Russian government statements, is the fourth since the Russian
Federation became an independent country in 1991; the earlier versions date from 1993, 2000 and 2010.

The Russian Security Council, which includes the president and other senior national security officials, directed
the writing of an updated military doctrine in July 2013 and established a special working group for that
purpose.

In September 2014, Mikhail Popov, the Council’s deputy chairman, said that the doctrine would address new
threats that have arisen since 2010, such as “the Arab Spring events, the military conflict in Syria and the
situation in Ukraine and around it” as well as NATO’s more hostile stance toward Russia, including its
unreliability as a supplier of military equipment.

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