The U.S. versus Russia: Even Scholar Stephen Cohen Is Starting to Speak the Truth!
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- The U.S. versus Russia: Even Scholar Stephen Cohen Is Starting to Speak the Truth!
by Eric Zuesse, http://www.globalresearch.ca/
An alarming development is that Stephen F. Cohen, the internationally prominent scholar of Russia, is acknowledging that (1:35 on the video) “for the first time in my long life (I began in this field in the 1960s), I think the possibility of war with Russia is real,” and he clearly and unequivocally places all of the blame for it on the U.S. leadership. He calls this “possibly a fateful turning-point in history.” He also says “it could be the beginning of the end of the so-called trans-Atlantic alliance.”
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He goes on to say (2:20):
“This problem began in the 1990s, when the Clinton Administration adopted a winner-take-all policy toward post-Soviet Russia … Russia gives, we take. … This policy was adopted by the Clinton Administration but is pursued by every [meaning both] political party, every President, every American Congress, since President Clinton, to President Obama. This meant that the United States was entitled to a sphere or zone of influence as large as it wished, right up to Russia’s borders, and Russia was entitled to no sphere of influence, at all, not even in Georgia, … or in Ukraine (with which Russia had been intermarried for centuries).”
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He also speaks clearly about the misrepresentations of Putin by the American Government, and he clearly states (5:25):
“He’s more European than 99% of other Russians.”
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Regarding Ukraine (5:45):
“Since November of 2013, Putin has been not aggressive, but reactive, at every stage.”
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Regarding, in America, the effective unanimity of allowed scholarly and media opinions to the contrary of the actual facts (and this is the most startling thing of all, so you might want to go straight to it, at 7:05):
“This is an unprecedented situation in American politics. … This is exceedingly dangerous, and this is a failure of American democracy. Why it happened, I am not sure.”
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He condemns (7:30)
“this extraordinarily irrational [non] factual demonization of Putin … and this too is hard to explain.”
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Europe (8:40):
“Now things have begun to change. Europe is splitting on this.” He acknowledges “Crimea is not coming back [to Ukraine],” and urges “a Ukraine — and this is what the dispute began over — free to trade with Russia and with the West.”
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And,
“no membership in NATO for Ukraine. … This has to be in writing. No more oral promises such as they gave to Gorbachev. And it has to be ratified by the United Nations.”
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Regarding Obama (13:00):
“I have never seen an American President make such personal remarks about a Russian leader [Putin] in public.”
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Regarding the existing Ukrainian Government (14:10):
“This is not a democratic regime. … Unless the West stops supporting Kiev unconditionally, I fear we are drifting toward war with Russia.”
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WOW! When even a word-mincer such as he, is stating that the U.S. Government is seeking to conquer Russia, that is news!
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He doesn’t even so much as mention the Ukrainian Government’s war to eliminate the residents in the resisting region (Donbass — Ukraine’s far-east). There is still a lot of the ugliness that he covers up: Obama’s having installed these genocidally anti-Russian nazis into power, the IMFs subservience to the Obama regime, the failure of European leaders to state flat-out that this American establishment of a nazi regime in Europe (Ukraine) is disgusting and will receive no cooperation whatsoever from them.
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