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

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