>The 2 countries are at war
U.S. Corp vs. Russia:
Syria, Ukraine, Sudan…
March 29, 2017
The “grey zone” means different things to different people. In the United States in recent years,
one definition that has emerged is geographical. It refers to countries and parts of the world to
which there is not a clear U.S. commitment, but where the United States has interests. In Europe,
this means countries that are not members of NATO (as NATO members do have an explicit
security commitment from the United States). This, of course, includes Ukraine.
Another definition for grey zone refers to operations, specifically those that are more difficult to
define as either peace or war, and indeed possibly those undertaken intentionally to obfuscate
and blur the lines between the two.
In the context of Russian operations in Ukraine, we are interested today in two kinds of
activities. Influence operations, which seek to leverage media and propaganda efforts as well as
business and political ties to attain national goals are, if not always aboveboard, surely short of
armed conflict.
The Roman Provenance Theory: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered.
What narrative ass hole… Scripture exhorts us to examine and test ourselves (2 Cor. 13:5)…cult much?