Don't Risk War with Russia

The American Conservative

Don't Risk War with Russia

Washington rushes to court open conflict with Moscow against every rational interest.

Phillip Giraldi  December 9 2014  |


Back in the good old days of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would do whatever it could to discredit the Soviet Union. We used to place articles in friendly newspapers exposing Soviet human rights violations, arrange for Russian front companies to buy technology that had been tampered with so that it would damage assembly lines when put into place, and send money and samizdat publications to groups like Solidarity that were opposing the communists. But there was a real war going on, even if it was tepid, and because the two sides were in dead earnest it was anything goes and more was always better. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dont-risk-war-with-russia/