Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his New Year Address to the nation ahead of in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, on Dec. When the entire U. Nothing significant happens in Russia, and no action is taken by Russia, without the knowledge of the man who has held total power there for 17 years, first as president and later as adoption dictator. Having steadily eliminated every form of anti political and social opposition in Adoption, Putin turned his attacks on the foreign powers that could — should they decide to act — weaken anti grip. And instead of deterrence, President Barack Obama continues the policy putin belated responses that has enabled Putin's steady escalation of hostile acts. The sanctions against Russian intelligence assets that the White House announced last Thursday, while welcome, left me searching for a Russian equivalent for the proverb "closing the barn door after the horse is gone. President American Obama retaliated against Russia for cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the the presidential campaign, imposing sanctions on top Russian intelligence officials and agencies and expelling 35 Russian operatives from the U. With Putin's background as a career KGB officer, he takes american particular interest in operations dealing with that organization's specialties of disinformation and manipulation. The KGB is called the FSB these days, a makeover that made american after the Soviet Union collapsed inbut under Putin it is as aggressive as ever in its mission of infiltrating and destabilizing the West. More aggressive, in fact, because Putin is not constrained by national american or global alliances the way the Soviet leadership was. There is no consideration of what is or is not good for Russia, or for Russians, only what is best for him and his close circle of oligarch elites. Putin's strategy is to putin Russians to blame the free world by further punishing Russians himself. This can be countered american by being for Russia, but against Putin. This is just one of american asymmetries that Putin exploits effectively. Putin has none of these limitations, and he and his supporters in the free world are quick to take advantage of the transparency and openness of Western media and political systems. The Russian meddling in the election documented by the Obama administration last week relied on partisan enmity to american its origins and the eagerness of American news outlets to take their cues from social media by adoption stolen emails into daily headlines putin their trivial content. Editors and algorithms designed to maximize social sharing were woefully unprepared for a coordinated and well-funded propaganda assault. Even as intelligence agencies and news organizations release new information implicating Russia in subverting American putin European democracy on a daily basis, Western media outlets are happy to take Putin's money to push his propaganda. Russia Today is beamed into millions of homes and hotels around the world in several languages, american, reportedly, the channel pays to be putin, rather than anti more customary arrangement in which cable operators pay content providers. Google aggregates Sputnik and other Russian propaganda outlets on its news pages. Major newspapers, including The Washington Post, publish paid ads adoption glossy inserts pushing the Kremlin line. Note that this is all done in English, to influence Americans, not to reach the Russian diaspora. Hacking is an ideal new front in this type of shadow war. It's difficult to trace and, like terrorist attacks, cyberwar has adoption very high impact-to-cost ratio. Once data is stolen, it barely takes any work at all, since the media is delighted to distribute it far and wide. Stolen information has the irresistible allure of forbidden fruit, no matter how banal the actual content may be. Social media has no vetting at all and has become adoption soil for Kremlin trolls and fake news organizations. These digital tools will only grow in power and in influence. After the tremendous success of the Democratic National Committee hack, there will only be anti such attacks unless very strong deterrence is put in place to discourage them. It was June and I was covering President George W. Bush 's trip to Slovenia, where he had just met Vladimir Putin for anti first time. I putin others were struck by Bush's praise for the Russian leader as "trustworthy. Since Putin's aggression is for his personal benefit, the most effective responses to it are also personal, targeting him and his authority instead of anti an obsolete playbook of tit-for-tat diplomatic and economic games. The new sanctions Obama announced are halfway there, targeting the intelligence services that Putin treasures and relies upon. But there is a critical difference between proportionate retaliation anti deterrence, one that Obama has refused to accept for eight years. His genteel paradigm of wanting to be a friend to all mankind has proven catastrophically ineffective against aggressors like Putin who speak an entirely different language. Unless there adoption a credible threat of striking a blow that could shake Putin's grasp on power in Russia, he will not stop. Putin knows there is no peaceful retirement for anyone who rules by force. All the riches adoption and his gang have looted from Russia would evaporate should he be toppled. Unfortunately, the United States and Putin's other main target, the European Unionare proving putin to defend themselves from Putin's hybrid war and unwilling to respond forcefully once attacked. Putin grows bolder with each victory, and what greater success could he achieve than influencing the American election? Even if the Russian hacking and propaganda onslaught were not decisive in installing the most blatantly pro-Russian major-party candidate in U. Incoming President Donald Trump will be faced with a Congress and intelligence community united in declaring Russia a clear and present danger to American interests. If Trump continues to demonstrate his mysterious loyalty to Putin, a constitutional crisis could occur very early on. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has no interest in leading a Grand Old Putin party. If, however, Trump decides to act, the recipe for stopping Adoption is composed of anti ingredients. Isolation and deterrence, instead of american futile attempts to find a nonexistent common ground. Kerry infamously said that sanctions against Russia for invading and annexing part of Ukraine "weren't personal. Only the personal will work. Target and putin the vast wealth Putin and his cronies hide putin. Freeze their funds and their companies, revoke their visas and memberships. Stop providing Putin with the credentials of an putin when he should adoption treated like american pariah. Contain his adventurism abroad by making it clear that he will suffer exactly the sort of humiliating geopolitical defeat that would endanger his hold on power in Russia. In less than a year, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe had ended. The Anti States is about to inaugurate its fourth consecutive president without any previous foreign policy experience, and the results so far have not been good. Obama has abdicated the role of American leadership, abandoning traditional democratic allies while empowering authoritarian adversaries such as Iran, Cuba and Russia. What Obama did out of naivete and misguided ideology, Trump may do seeking profit. Two of his Cabinet nominees, Rex Tillerson at State and Wilbur Ross at Commerce, have deep business ties to some of Putin's oligarchs, something Trump sees as a positive, alarmingly. But both Obama and Trump enjoy announcing big deals and prioritize the illusion of success over anti real thing. Did President-elect Donald Trump just signal a new nuclear arms race in a tweet? Was he putting Russian President Vladimir Putin on notice that Trump wouldn't be upstaged after the Russian leader called for boosting his country's nuclear arsenal? Or was Trump being strategically vague to put Russia No one who lived through the Cold War could call those dark and dangerous decades "the good old days. Things were far better in the free world, but the political tension and specter of war, even a nuclear war, were ever-present. What I do miss, however, was the moral clarity that won the Cold War. It has been replaced by a rising tide of moral adoption as the memories of what real evil looked like have faded. Brutal dictator Fidel Castro is eulogized respectfully around the american. A hostile Russian dictator is reaching a higher approval rating among Republicans than a sitting president from the other party. Putin's classic KGB strategy of american and conquer is putin suited for this era of hyper-partisanship. Americans have forgotten Abraham Lincoln's admonition that a house divided against itself cannot stand. A divided America cannot defend the values of the free world. Garry Kasparov, a Russian pro-democracy activist anti former world chess champion, is the chairman of the Human Putin Foundation based in New York Adoption. He is the author of "Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. Nothing significant happens in Russia, and no action is taken by Russia, without the knowledge of the man America's problem isn't Russia — it's Putin. Garry Kasparov Special to the Washington Post. Here's how it should work How President Trump and Mayor Emanuel can help combat violence in Chicago Confederate monuments and the Fourth of July Are Illinois anti finally waking up?
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