Friday, April 17, 2015

The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say” — Patrick L. Smith interviews Stephen Cohen

There's an alternative story of Russian relations we're not hearing. Historian Stephen Cohen tells it here.
The second piece of this conversation will run next week.
Concerning:
What’s happened in Ukraine clearly has plunged us not only into a new or renewed—let historians decide that—Cold War, but one that is probably going to be more dangerous than the preceding one for two or three reasons. The epicenter is not in Berlin this time but in Ukraine, on Russia’s borders, within its own civilization: That’s dangerous. Over the 40-year history of the old Cold War, rules of behavior and recognition of red lines, in addition to the red hotline, were worked out. Now there are no rules. We see this every day—no rules on either side.
The rest of the interview elaborates on the dangerous situation that the American leadership is stumbling into.

Salon
The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say”: Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you.
Patrick L. Smith interviews Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies, history, and politics at New York University and Princeton University

Here we go with the wheels coming off:

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The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces [General Valery Gerasimov] has warned the European countries planning to host the US-led NATO missile systems that Moscow considers the installations "priority targets," as the systems possess offensive capabilities.…
Meanwhile, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Washington has crossed all lines by attempting to drag Ukraine into its league as part of its wider plan to expand NATO and alienate Russia's neighbors.
"NATO countries are actively pursuing an expansion of their geopolitical space, building up the military capabilities in Eastern Europe and closing in on Russia's border. The focus of their drills in the alliance's eastern front and Arctic region indicates their anti-Russian nature," he said.
Shoigu also accused NATO of increasing the potential for war in Eastern Europe by practicing "the use of American tactical nuclear weapons deployed in several European countries."
This is the Russian military talking, not Putin.

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This is the most worrisome. Weaponizing space.

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