Russia: America's new bogeyman?
Moves to target Russia as global threat may prove to be self-fulfilling prophecy
Washington
SINCE the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, members of the American Foreign Policy Establishment (FPE) have been suffering from what former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman has described as the Enemy Depravation Syndrome (EDS).
After all, for close to five decades, the spectre of a powerful global political and military superpower threatening core US national interests and challenging its central ideological principles served as raison d'etre for expanding American military presence and promoting an ideological crusade worldwide.
It wasn't only the generals at the Pentagon and the spies at the Central Intelligence Agency who had…
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