apologists, 14–15
blaming Brexit on, 50–51
ceasefire agreement and, 36
“cyber-Pearl Harbor” ordered by, 79–80
demonization of, 1–2, 5–6, 20–21, 66, 119, 129, 135, 173, 187–188, 212
alleged destabilization of the West, 112–115
DNC emails and, 75, 81, 86–87
economic relations with Europe, 113
economy under, 4–5
election (March, 2018), 167–168, 169, 172
examining “minuses” of, 3
expulsion of Russian diplomats and, 80, 106
fascism and, 182
G20 meeting, 58–59
goal for Ukraine, 33–34
media omissions on, 22
media promoting suspicions about, 90–92
meeting with Trump, 105
Minsk negotiations and, 56
national security threat from, 51–52
popularity of, 168–169
Putin-friendly narrative, 2
response to Syrian missiles shooting down Russian aircraft, 210
speech to Russian parliament (March, 2018), 163–164, 166
Stalinism and, 109
Stalin/Stalinism and, 47–48, 128, 129, 130, 170
Syria and, 38–39, 56–57, 210
Trump meeting with, 131–132
Trump-Putin Helsinki summit meeting, 186, 191, 200–201
Trump’s anti-terrorism efforts with, 100, 101
Ukrainian crisis and, 18, 83–84
US moles in office of, 205–206
Raqqa, Syria, 126
Reagan, Ronald, 27, 60, 67, 69, 88, 105, 137, 164–165, 211
Real Time with Bill Maher , 20–21
Reich, Robert, 120
Reid, Joy, 135
Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, 54
Rethinking the Soviet Experience (Cohen), xi
Right Sector, 179
Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, 53
Robinson, Eugene, 184
Rogin, Josh, 71, 72
Rolling Stone , 172
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 198
Russia. See also new Cold War; Putin, Vladimir
adoption of children from, 70, 105
American media’s distortion of, 19–23
America’s treatment of post-Soviet, 16
awareness of “living history,” 137, 160
criminalizing of, 176–179
democratization of, 3
economic sanctions against, 49, 64, 70, 106, 140, 169, 197–201, 212
elections, 63
feeling attacked by America, 136–140
“information war” against, 41–42
interference in US elections (2016), 68, 74–75, 79, 86–87. See also Russiagate
is not a threat to the U.S., 134, 136
isolation of, 190
leaving the West, 115–118, 178
lost alternatives of Gorbachev in, 110–112
opponents of détente in, 89–90
of Stalin vs. under Putin, 4
St. Petersburg subway terrorism, 95
Trump’s foreign policy views on, 39–40
US declaring war on ( Meet the Press ), 67–68
US-NATO military presence near, 45–46, 48, 125
US rogue-like behavior toward, 48–49
US-Russian cooperation against Syrian forces, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64
US Second Cold War with, 149–152
Victory Day in, 98, 100
worsening relations with US, October, 2016, 66–67
Russiagate, 96
allegations, 1, 8
American amnesia/denial and, 160–162
beginning of, 120
CFR report on, 150–152
dangerous consequences of, 188–189
destabilization of the West and, 112–115
firing of Comey, 99
Helsinki summit meeting and, 196
informant and, 183–186
informants, 183–186, 204–205
Intelgate and, 152–157, 183
liberals and, 120
national security and, 131–133, 134
neo-McCarthyism, 92–93
nuclear war risk and, 174–176
preventing US diplomacy with Russia, 140
US elites and, 157–160
US media on, 103–107, 120, 121, 183–184, 204, 208–209
US-Russian alliance against terrorism and, 100–102
Russian-NATO Founding Act, 122
Russophobia, 171–176, 188
Ryan, Paul, 181
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 20, 139
sanctions. See economic sanctions
Sanders, Bernie, 120
Sasse, Ben, 5
Saudi Arabia, 37
Scarborough, Joe, 177
Schiff, Adam, 92, 120
Schumer, Chuck, 181, 195
Sea of Azov, 210
Serbia, 24, 138
Shaheen, Jeanne, 117
Shakarian, Pietro, xii
Shane, Scott, 81, 136
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 51
Shoigu, Sergei, 103
Simpson, Glenn, 154
60 Minutes , 65
Skripal, Sergei, 170–171
slavery, American, 107–108
Slavophiles, 89, 115, 116, 117
Snyder, Timothy, 55
Sochi Olympics, 19, 21
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives (Cohen), xi, 111
Soviet system, Putin and, 8
Soviet Union. See also Russia
end of, 111–112, 116–117
link to the West, 116
Stalin’s Great Terror, 107–109
undemocratic ending of, 111–112
World War II, 99
Spain, 72
Speier, Jackie, 121
Stalin, Josef, 3, 4, 170
anti-Stalinists, 127–131
conflicts over reputation of, 46–48
pro-Stalin sentiments, 4, 46, 47, 129–130
Stalin’s Great Terror, 47, 107–109
State Museum of the History of the Gulag, 47, 109
Steele, Christopher, 81, 86, 103, 106, 120, 152–153, 154–156, 205
St. Petersburg terrorist act, 95
summit meetings, 105, 186, 191–194
Surkov, Vyacheslav, 33
Svoboda, 17
Swalwell, Eric, 121
Syria
ceasefire agreement, 35–36, 37
collapse of diplomacy in, 64–65, 66
false US narrative on, 74
mini-détente in, 40–41, 53
missiles shooting down Russian aircraft (September 2018), 209–210
Putin’s 2015 military intervention in, 7–8, 38
Trump-Putin summit meeting and, 194
Trump’s missile attack on, 96, 97, 175
US attack on, 62
US-Russia cooperation against, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64
US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 187
US shooting down military aircraft of, 102–103
Taliban, the, 138, 204
tax returns of Trump, 86
terrorism, 52, 95, 100–102, 135
Tillerson, Rex, 75, 82, 93, 95, 97, 98
Times Sunday Review , 89
Trump, Donald
anti-terrorism efforts with Russia, 100, 101
anti-Trump media, 81
Brennan affair and, 201–203
challenging bipartisan policies, 39, 41, 69
as Cold War heretic, 194–197
collusion with Russia, 92, 99. See also Russiagate
Comey, James and, 99, 100
détente and, 71, 90
détente policy, 69–71
foreign policy views, 39–40, 42–43
getting tough with Russia, 174
Kremlin-baiting of, 84–88
leaked documents and, 80–81, 86
meeting with Putin, 105, 131–132
missile attack on Syria, 96, 97, 175
as pro-détente, 54, 60
as pro-Putin, 54–55
Russiagate delegitimizing presidency of, 157–158
Russian interference in US elections and, 75
tax returns, 86
Trump-Putin Helsinki summit meeting, 186, 191, 200–201
Ukrainian war and, 84
weapons to Kiev, 144–145
Trump, Donald Jr., 105, 106
Tsygankov, Andrei P., 173
Turkey, 37, 53
Ukraine/Ukrainian crisis. See also Minsk Accords
Crimea episode (August 2016), 56
fallacy and fact on, 16–18, 17–18
false narrative on Russian aggression and, 74
Joseph Biden and, 145–146
Maidan protests, 17, 36, 114, 140, 144, 179, 212
Maidan Revolution regime, 43–44
maritime war, 210–211
media coverage, 14, 21–22
NATO and, 7, 17, 24, 123, 139
neo-Nazis in, 6
neo-Nazism and, 179–182
Obama’s diplomacy with, 139–140
outcomes, 18
Putin and, 33–34, 114–115
Putin’s “aggression” in, 83
risk of direct conflict with, 187
secret diplomacy on, 33–34
two conflicting narratives of, 143–144
US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 7, 13
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