Gershman, Carl, 139
glasnost, 47, 94, 111
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 54
Goldberg, Michelle, 195
Golinkin, Lev, xii, 180–181
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 3, 27, 47, 53, 67, 69, 105, 110–112, 116, 128, 137, 138, 147, 164–165
Gordon, Philip H., 150
Graham, Lindsay, 71, 84, 91, 175
Greece, 72
Haass, Richard, 150
Haberman, Maggie, 103–104
hacking. See cyber-hacking, Russian
Haley, Nikki, 93, 209
Halper, Stefan, 183–184
Hannity, Sean, 155
Hayden, Michael, 184
Heilmann, John, 159
Helsinki Accords (1975), 28
Helsinki Trump-Putin summit meeting (2018), 186 191–194, 201
Hersh, Seymour, 103
Holbrooke, Richard, 24
“holiday with tears,” 99
Hollande, Francois, 26, 33, 59
Hoover, J. Edgar, 93, 153–154
hot war, 28, 46, 69, 91, 186–187, 209–210. See also proxy wars
Hungary, 73
Ignatius, David, 126
IMF (International Monetary Fund), 41, 57, 58
impeachment of Trump, 81, 85, 175, 202
income inequality, 135–136
India, 51
informants, 183–186, 204–205
Intel, 96, 104, 105, 120, 184, 204, 205
“Intelgate,” 99–100, 133, 152–157, 183
Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), 87, 103, 133, 153, 183
Iran, 8, 88, 90, 135, 165, 178–179, 199
Iraq, 74, 113, 123, 126, 196
Iraq War, 123, 133, 207
Isikoff, Michael, 184
ISIS, 38, 61, 135, 140
Israel, 101, 161, 180, 210
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 63
Italy, 72, 73
Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 198
Jaresko, Natalie, 41
jihadist forces, 64, 68, 100
The John Batchelor Show , ix-x
Johnson, David, xii
Johnson, Lyndon B., 26–27
Johnson’s Russia List , xii
journalists, murder of, 6
Kaliningrad, 45
Kennan, George, 13, 171–172
Kennedy, John F., 26, 79, 101
Kerry, John, 18, 34–35, 40, 45, 53, 55, 66
KGB, 5–6, 185
Khanna, Ro, 182
Khrushchev, Nikita, 26, 47, 94, 127
Kirchik, James, 202
Kissinger, Henry, 1, 90, 101
kleptocratic economic system, 4–5
Kosovo, 24, 111, 123, 126, 138
Kramer, David, 4
Krauthammer, Charles, 24
Kristof, Nicholas, 2, 89, 93
Krugman, Paul, 55, 89, 145, 183–184
Kushner, Jared, 101, 102
Lavrov, Sergei, 35, 40, 45, 66–67, 101
Lemon, Don, 184
liberal Democrats, 120–121, 196, 203
Libya, 36, 37, 38, 123, 125–126, 139
Lippmann, Walter, 146
Litvinenko, Alexander, 6
Lizza, Ryan, 121
Los Angeles Times , 202
Luhansk, Ukraine, 18, 19
Lyons, Tony, xii
Macron, Emmanuel, 107, 204
Maddow, Rachel, 66, 85
Magnitsky Act, 105, 198
Maidan protests, 17, 36, 114, 140, 144, 179, 212
Manafort, Paul, 57, 58, 86, 162, 163, 184, 208
Matlock, Jack F. Jr., 3, 27, 101, 137
Matthews, Chris, 93
McCain, John, 1–2, 23, 71, 84, 86, 93, 169, 181, 195
McCarthyism, 54, 55. See also neo-McCarthyism
McFaul, Michael, 88, 101, 198
media, Russian, 136–137
media, US. See US media
Medvedev, Dmitri, 46, 96–97, 139, 146, 198
Meet the Press , 67–68, 103
memorials, 128–129, 130–131
Merkel, Angela, 26, 33, 59, 204
Merz, Charles, 146
Mettan, Guy, 173
Mifsud, Joseph, 185
Milbank, Dana, 93, 135, 159, 177
military buildup, along Russia’s border, 45–46, 48–49, 99, 125
Minsk Accords, 26, 33, 36, 45, 56, 59, 61, 84, 144, 187, 211
Moldova, 72
mole in Kremlin, 205–206
Montenegro, 122
Morell, Michael, 184
Mosul, Iraq, 126
Moynihan, Patrick, 16
MSNBC, 20, 61, 85, 91, 96, 104, 135, 148, 184
Mueller, Robert, 121, 153
Muratov, Dmitri, xii, 110
Murdoch, Rupert, 42
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), 164
The Nation , x, xi, xii, 110
national security
5 threats to, 134–136
real enemies of US, 80–82
Russiagate and, 131–133, 158
National Security Archive, 138, 147–148
NATO
annexation of Kosovo, 126, 138
expansion eastward/to Russian borders, 16, 22, 23, 24, 29, 111, 138, 139, 147–148, 165, 187, 193
military presence on Russia’s borders, 34, 45–46, 48, 64, 99
security from expansion of, 122–125
Ukraine and, 7, 17, 24, 123, 139
US media on, 192–193
US-Russian proxy wars and, 7
NATO summit, 192–193
Navalny, Alexei, 169
Nazi-Soviet Pact, 81
Nemtsov, Boris, 6
neo-fascism, 144, 145, 179, 180, 181
neo-McCarthyism, 54–55, 60, 62, 75, 79, 92–93, 119, 203
neo-Nazism, 6, 126, 179–182
nerve agent attack, 170–171, 200
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 49
Netherlands, the, 72, 73
new Cold War. See also Russiagate
allegations of Putin’s aggression and, 7–8
consequences of, 23–24
deepening of, 25–26
de-militarization of, 38
détente/parity principle and, 26–29
explanation for, 24
fallacies and facts on, 16–18
false narratives on, 73–74
isolation of Russia from the West and, 117
lack of American opposition to, 118–121
lack of discourse on, 13–16
militarization of, 34–35
as more dangerous than its predecessor, 186–191, 207
Trump ending, 69–71
US double standards and, 125–127
US elites and, 211, 212
US policies/objectives and, 24–25
New Republic , 20, 146
New Yorker , 121, 159, 209
New York Times , xi, 2, 19, 37, 55, 57, 58, 61, 64, 65, 75, 81, 89, 90, 95, 103–104, 105, 120, 129, 132, 145, 146, 147–148, 153, 172, 183–184, 195, 202, 206, 208
NGOs, US-funded, 22, 24
Nixon, Richard, 27, 60, 69, 88, 131, 211
no-first-use of nuclear weapons, 59
Nord Stream 2 pipeline, 204
North Korea, 132, 179, 199
Novaya Gazeta , xii, 6, 110
NPR, 148
nuclear weapons/war, 59, 65, 71, 90, 110–111, 135, 163–166, 174–176, 177–178, 188, 207
Nuland, Victoria, 22–23, 33
Nunes, Devin, 152, 159
Obama, Barack (administration)
cooperation with Russia/Putin and, 44, 52–53, 56
détente and, 72
diplomacy with Russia, 139–140
DNC scandal and, 87, 120
expelled Russian diplomats, 80, 106
G20 meeting, 58–59
on isolating Russia, 33, 73
Libya and, 36, 38, 125–126, 139
military confrontation with Russia, 34–35
Syria and, 48–49
on terrorists in Aleppo, 68
Ukrainian crisis and, 18, 44, 114–115
on US as the indispensable nation, 28
Ohr, Nellie, 155
“Orange Revolution,” 24
Osnos, Evan, 159
Page, Carter, 152, 184
Pakistan, 51
Palmyra, Syria, 40, 42
Panama Papers, 42, 43
Papadopoulos, George, 185
parity principle, 27–29, 188
Parker, Kathleen, 158
Parry, Robert, 120
Parubiy, Andrei, 181
Paul, Rand, 93, 196
PBS, 148
Pence, Mike, 88
perestroika , 47, 116
Peters, Ralph, 173
Pipes, Richard, 118
political correctness, 93
Politkovskaya, Anna, 6
Pompeo, Mike, 135
Poroshenko, Petro, 26, 33, 36, 42, 43, 54, 59, 61, 144, 187
Postol, Theodore, 68, 103
Power, Samantha, 45, 62, 121
presidential election (2016), 127, 177. See also Russiagate
G20 meeting and, 60
Kremlin cyber-invasions, 74–75
New York Times Manafort article, 57, 58
sanction mania and Russia’s meddling in, 200–201
pro-Stalinism, 4, 46, 47, 129–130
proxy wars, 1, 7, 13, 24, 29, 187
Putin, Vladimir
as “aggressor,” 7–8, 17, 83, 140, 169, 196, 210
anti-détente sentiment and, 71
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