Стивен Коэн - War with Russia? - From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate

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