{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Diplomatic Attack Against NATO Enlargement (2008), ATT&CK campaign C0098 (v1.2)", "name": "Diplomatic Attack Against NATO Enlargement (2008) (C0098)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0039", "comment": "An attempt to strike a deal with the US leader over Kyiv's head in order to block Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration under the threat of its dismemberment: Ukraine's accession to NATO would create \"a field of conflict for you and us, long-term confrontation,\" while Moscow, relying on anti-NATO forces, \"would be working on stripping NATO of the possibility of enlarging. Russia would be creating problems there all the time\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008). As retold by Kommersant's source from the summit itself: \"You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? Part of its territory is Eastern Europe, and part - a considerable part - was gifted by us!\" - with a transparent hint \"that Russia could begin the severance of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine\"(Citation: \u0411\u043b\u043e\u043a \u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e \u0440\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u043f\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0442\u044b (\u041a\u043e\u043c\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u044a) 2008).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0137", "comment": "The deliberate injection of false historical narratives into the international arena: Ukraine, according to the Russian leader, \"is not a nation built in a natural manner\" and \"an artificial country created back in Soviet times,\" and its territories were supposedly gifts - \"In the 1920s and 1930s Ukraine obtained territory from Russia -- that's the eastern part of the country. In 1956, the Crimean peninsula was transferred to Ukraine\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008). From this the thesis of its possible disintegration was derived: \"the country could just split apart\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Diplomatic Attack Against NATO Enlargement (2008)", "color": "#66b1ff"}]}