Memo to President Putin: Plan to Destroy the United States
“Our enemies are now suppressed and are in the kingdom of the shadows.”
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation
FROM: Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia
SUBJECT: Operation PERUN: Next Steps Toward Defeating the Main Adversary
Our Anglo-Saxon adversaries and their NATO minions are exploiting Ukraine as an instrument of struggle with our country. The goal is to suppress Russia, retain their imaginary supremacy, maintain their unipolar world and ensure themselves the opportunity, as they have for decades, to live at the expense of others. Washington and London have designed a framework to destabilise the socio-political situation and undermine the constitutional foundations and sovereignty of the Russian Federation. Their chief weapon, of course, is Ukraine.
The Kyiv ruling clique is obsequiously serving the interests of its overseas patrons, striving to get into NATO to preserve its hold on power. This ploy, however, will not succeed for the same reasons the pro-American regime in Kabul was ousted despite the fact that Afghanistan had the status of a principal U.S. ally outside NATO. A similar fate awaits the Americans’ puppets in Ukraine. Defying immutable realities, Washington nonetheless has not ceased in its unrelenting efforts to destroy the Russian Federation through its proxies. The center of gravity in their strategy is to undermine our special military operation. We may have no other recourse but to use forceful methods to thwart or avert unfriendly actions that threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.
The directors of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Federal Security Service (FSB), Main Intelligence Directorate (GU), the Minister of Defence and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, however, all recommend that we continue on a steady course of utilizing new generation warfare against the Main Adversary. Our operating strategy of waging hybrid war on all fronts, but notably in the battlefield of the mind, has thus far yielded tremendous results beyond our initial expectations. This includes the elevation of our long-time premier asset, Donald Trump, into the U.S. presidency, defeating his opponent, then Russia’s most potent political enemy, in the process. We achieved this largely by sowing social discord via social media and boosting the pro-Moscow MAGA movement.
There is a destructive polarization of society in the United States, very serious conflicts between the Democrats and Republicans that keep expanding. You, Mr. President, have already stated that America is a dying empire — and most empires were not conquered, but were destroyed from within. America is on the brink of civil war. We must do everything in our power to ensure it happens, thereby achieving the final demise of the United States as a global power and enabling the realization of our goals in the near abroad, most importantly in Ukraine. We must think beyond restoration of zones of influence, as you outlined in your February 2022 speech. We firmly believe that Russia can roll back Western occupation of the former Warsaw Pact countries and restore our rightful, historical place in the region.
With your approval, we recommend the following strategy, which is essentially that which we have been pursuing at little cost, but with key modifications:
Foremost, the time has come to again help our partner Trump to become president.
Catalyze our growing network of agents of influence among congressional and other leading Republicans to stymie legal and political actions against Trump and conceal our role in supporting the failed January 6, 2021 putsch.
We should greatly step up our efforts to amplify the divisions and deepen the polarization of American society. This would again focus on exacerbating racial, political, religious and class hatred.
Our friends in the Republican Party have successfully halted funding for assistance to Ukraine, a major achievement in our influence operations. We must do everything in our power to weaken the Democrats in order to prevent the United States from providing more aid to the Ukrainian Nazi regime.
Utilize artificial intelligence technologies to create hyper-realistic — but fake — videos, to damage Democrats and other anti-Russian actors.
Further amplify allegations of corruption by Mr. Biden’s family.
Increase our penetration of and material support for sympathetic pro-Republican organizations, such as the National Rifle Association, Conservative Partnership Institute, Heritage Foundation, Center for Renewing America and America First Policy Institute; provide additional conceptual input into their “Project 2025.”
Increase our engagement with Tucker Carlson and other friends of Russia in the American media.
As we saw in 2020, it is far too difficult to meaningfully affect vote counts by hacking into local government computer networks. Therefore, we recommend concentrating our energies elsewhere.
Our modest investment in the former Internet Research Agency to sow disruptions in American society via social media bore us incalculable success in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. elections. We therefore recommend doubling, or tripling, our resources in this area, to include relevant units of our military intelligence establishment.
We are closer than we have been since the demise of the Soviet Union in vanquishing our adversaries, achieving victory in Ukraine and restoring Russia’s rightful place as a global superpower. We are now on the cusp of achieving what the great Chekist Feliks Dzerzhinsky declared: “Our enemies are now suppressed and are in the kingdom of the shadows.”