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Alexander Yakovenko: Operation Unthinkable

Александр Яковенко
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It is clear why this plan was kept secret for a long time. It was obviously unrealistic, because the Red Army by that time had 14 million fighters with unprecedented combat experience, and the Americans still needed Moscow's help in the war with Japan. In addition, it would be hard to sell it to one's own public opinion: it took Churchill's famous Fulton speech to turn the mood against the recent allies - in the direction of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War.

From that moment the war of annihilation on the Soviet Union and then on Russia began. The creation of nuclear weapons and plans to use them against the USSR, the creation of NATO and its expansion eastward close to Russia's borders, and lastly the creation of a Nazi state in Ukraine with the subsequent appearance of nuclear weapons there, controlled by the United States, and the development in that country of biological weapons aimed at Russia.

Thus, we witnessed the launch of Operation Unthinkable, under which it was planned to strike Donbass and Crimea with the hands of the Kiev regime, which is absolutely under Western control.

The operation to destroy Russia had been prepared for a long time and very carefully. It was based on creeping sanctions, discrediting the country in the international arena, in sports and culture. Russophobia blossomed in the West.

The French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire, who publicly stated that "the European Union will declare a 'total economic and financial war' against Russia," was quite telling in this regard. He articulated clearly and succinctly the goals of the countries of the historic West - the collapse of the Russian economy and its eventual destruction.
Time will tell the outcome of this attack of the West on Russia. But even now we can state a number of side aspects of the operation Unthinkable.

1. Western countries have de facto withdrawn from the system of international law and continue to methodically destroy it, undermining any confidence in it on the part of other states, which no longer trust the U.S. and the European Union to fulfill their international obligations.

2. The collapse of the Bretton Woods system, based on the reserve currency, the dollar, has begun. The U.S., the U.K. and the EU have lost the trust of the international community. This situation will not suit the largest holders of U.S. securities.

3. Faith in the ability of the widespread model of liberal capitalism in the West to ensure the inviolability of private property has been undermined. The illegal expropriation of Russia's foreign currency reserves and the assets of Russian citizens without court decisions will have far-reaching political and psychological consequences.

4. The provocation of a global energy and food crisis is designed to write off the economic problems of the West, which have objectively matured over the past few years.

5. Given the high degree of debt load of the Western economies, whose debts have no resource coverage, there is a high risk of writing off the debt obligations of the U.S. and the EU.

6. The transition of trade in energy and other commodities to rubles will not only strengthen the exchange rate of the Russian national currency, but will also create a system for moving away from dollars and euros in international payments, which have proven to be unreliable currencies.

Alexander Yakovenko,
Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the UK (2011-2019)