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FOREIGN AID
This area has been greatly reduced. For example, The USSR used to pay Cuba 200 million hard-cash USD’s per year to station listening
devices pointed at the U.S.A. Between 1991-2006, Russia was trying to get its own financial house in order, so now only the following is going
on… 1) Aid, usually in the form of credits or discounts, to countries planning weapons purchases, like Venezuela..The most recent Arab
uprisings have had a very negative effect on future sales because Russia refused to sell to affected dictatorships during this time in consort with
the West; for still-extant dictatorships, this is a sign of weakness. As well, the immediate destruction of 10+ billion worth of Soviet military
equipment during the 2003 neutralization of Iraq reduces the perception of its effectiveness versus western products in general. 2) Aid, in
cash, to former parts of the USSR with the intent of taking them over eventually. Examples: Ossetia and Abkhazia (taken, for now) and
Moldavia (planned). 3) Price dictates and controls on raw material exports, particularly gas, which have soured end-users considerably as well
as (desired from the Russian standpoint) destabilized pipe-through-transport countries like Ukraine and Belorussia. Then there are FIVE
SPECIAL PROJECTS worth noting which have links to the international community and represent very little to the home population: 1) The
2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 2) The 2018 World Cup of Soccer. 3) Taking over the Arctic. 4) Going to Mars. 5) Mining the ocean
floors.
devices pointed at the U.S.A. Between 1991-2006, Russia was trying to get its own financial house in order, so now only the following is going
on… 1) Aid, usually in the form of credits or discounts, to countries planning weapons purchases, like Venezuela..The most recent Arab
uprisings have had a very negative effect on future sales because Russia refused to sell to affected dictatorships during this time in consort with
the West; for still-extant dictatorships, this is a sign of weakness. As well, the immediate destruction of 10+ billion worth of Soviet military
equipment during the 2003 neutralization of Iraq reduces the perception of its effectiveness versus western products in general. 2) Aid, in
cash, to former parts of the USSR with the intent of taking them over eventually. Examples: Ossetia and Abkhazia (taken, for now) and
Moldavia (planned). 3) Price dictates and controls on raw material exports, particularly gas, which have soured end-users considerably as well
as (desired from the Russian standpoint) destabilized pipe-through-transport countries like Ukraine and Belorussia. Then there are FIVE
SPECIAL PROJECTS worth noting which have links to the international community and represent very little to the home population: 1) The
2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 2) The 2018 World Cup of Soccer. 3) Taking over the Arctic. 4) Going to Mars. 5) Mining the ocean
floors.
