War with russia? : From putin and ukraine to trump and russiagate

Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate’s unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American “disinformation,” not only Russian, is a growing peril. In War With Russia?, Stephen F. Cohen—the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia—gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump’s election and today’s unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Cohen’s views have made him, it is said, “America’s most controversial Russia expert.” Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create. War With Russia? gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad? It was never really about Russia anyway, that silly decoy was there to keep the headlines off of China and Ukraine where deep pockets were enriching DNC members beyond measure. In his concluding chapter the author reminds us: "Russiagate’s core allegations, none of them yet proven, had become a central part of the new Cold War. If nothing else, they severely constrained President Trump’s capacity to conduct crisis-negotiations with Moscow while they further vilified Russian President Putin for having, it was widely asserted, personally ordered “an attack on America” during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hollywood liberals, it will be recalled, quickly omitted the question mark, declaring, “We are at war.” In October 2018, the would-be titular head of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, added her voice to this reckless allegation, flatly stating that the United States was “attacked by a foreign power” and equating it with “the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”113 Clinton may have been prompted by another outburst of New York Times and Washington Post malpractice. On September 20 and 23 respectively, those exceptionally influential papers devoted thousands of words, illustrated with sinister prosecutorial graphics, to special retellings of the Russiagate narrative they had assiduously promoted for nearly two years, along with the narrative’s serial fallacies, selective and questionable history, and factual errors. (In the front of its issue, the Times reporters explained that “the goal of the project ... was to bring people back to a story they might have abandoned.”) "Astonishingly, neither paper gave any credence to an emphatic statement by Bob Woodward—normally considered the most authoritative chronicler of Washington’s political secrets—that after two years of research he had found “no evidence of collusion” between Trump and Russia." Stephen F. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University, where for many years he was also director of the Russian Studies Program, and Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History at New York University. Title Page Copyright Table of Contents To My Readers Prologue: The Putin Specter—Who He Is Not Part I: The New Cold War Erupts 2014-2015 Patriotic Heresy vs. Cold War Distorting Russia Why Cold War Again? The Détente Imperative and Parity Principle Part II: US Follies and Media Malpractices 2016 Secret Diplomacy on Ukraine The Obama Administration Escalates Military Confrontation With Russia Another Turning Point in the New Cold War The Obama Administration Attacks Its Own Syrian Ceasefire Was Putin’s Syria Withdrawal Really A “Surprise”? Trump vs. Triumphalism A Fragile Mini-Détente In Syria “Information War” vs. Embryonic Détente The Crisis of the US “Ukrainian Project” Is War With Russia Possible? Stalin Resurgent, Again Has Washington Gone Rogue? Blaming Brexit on Putin and Voters The Imperative of a US-Russian Alliance vs. Terrorism The Friends and Foes of Détente Neo-McCarthyism Cold-War Casualties From Kiev to the New York Times More Lost Opportunities Another Endangered Chance to Diminish the New Cold War Who’s Making US Foreign Policy? Slouching Toward War? Washington Warmongers, Moscow Prepares Did the White House Declare War on Russia? Trump Could End the New Cold War The Friends and Foes of Détente, II False Narratives, Not “Fake News,” Are the Danger Cold War Hysteria vs. National Security Part III: Unprecedented Dangers 2017 Did Putin Really Order a “Cyber–Pearl Harbor”? The Real Enemies of US Security Ukraine Revisited Kremlin-Baiting President Trump Putin’s Own Opponents of Détente The “Fog of Suspicion” Neo-McCarthyism Is Now Politically Correct Yevtushenko’s Civic Courage “Words Are Also Deeds” Wartime “Tears” in Moscow, Cold War Inquisition in Washington Terrorism and Russiagate “Details After the Sports” Cold-War News Not “Fit to Print” Historical Monuments, from Charlottesville to Moscow The Lost Alternatives of Mikhail Gorbachev Does Putin Really Want to “Destabilize the West”? Will Russia Leave the West? The Silence of the Doves Has NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer? More Double Standards The Unheralded Putin—Official Anti-Stalinist No. 1 Russiagate Zealots vs. National Security Russia Is Not the “No. 1 Threat” Why Russians Think America Is Attacking Them Part IV: War With Russia? 2018 Four Years of Maidan Myths Russia “Betrayed” Not “News That’s Fit to Print” US Establishment Finally Declares “Second Cold War” Russiagate or Intelgate? What Russiagate Reveals About America’s Elites Russiagate Amnesia or Denialism How Washington Provoked—and Perhaps Lost—a New Nuclear-Arms Race Russia Endorses Putin, The US and UK Condemn Him (Again) Russophobia Russiagate and the Risk of Nuclear War Criminalizing Russia America’s Collusion with Neo-Nazis “Informant” Echoes of Dark Pasts Why This Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the One We Survived Summitgate vs. “Peace” Trump as Cold War Heretic Sanction Mania What the Brennan Affair Reveals “Vital” US Moles in the Kremlin Afterword Endnotes Index About the Author Is America in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? What should Donald Trump and America's allies do? America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington's war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate's unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American "disinformation," not only Russian, is a growing peril. In War With Russia? , Stephen F. Cohen—the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia—gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump's election and today's unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Topics include: Distorting Russia US Follies and Media Malpractices 2016 The Obama Administration Escalates Military Confrontation With Russia Was Putin's Syria Withdrawal Really A "Surprise"? Trump vs. Triumphalism Has Washington Gone Rogue? Blaming Brexit on Putin and Voters Washington Warmongers, Moscow Prepares Trump Could End the New Cold War The Real Enemies of US Security Kremlin-Baiting President Trump Neo-McCarthyism Is Now Politically Correct Terrorism and Russiagate Cold-War News Not "Fit to Print" Has NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer? Why Russians Think America Is Attacking Them How Washington Provoked—and Perhaps Lost—a New Nuclear-Arms Race Russia Endorses Putin, The US and UK Condemn Him (Again) Russophobia Sanction Mania Cohen's views have made him, it is said, "America's most controversial Russia expert." Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create. War With Russia? gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad? Cohen believes that America is in a new Cold War with Russia -- and it is even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations. Cohen provides a narrative of this dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump's election and today's unprecedented Russiagate allegations. -- adapted from Amazon.com info