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War with Russia?, from Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate, Stephen F. Cohen ; preface: Katrina vanden Heuvel

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War with Russia?

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Stephen F. Cohen ; preface: Katrina vanden Heuvel

from Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate

"Prescient and even more relevant than when originally released in 2019, this Memorial Edition of War With Russia provides keen perspective to help readers understand the current Ukraine crisis. Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? War With Russia answers these questions and more. America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington's warlike demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate's unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American "disinformation," not only Russian, is a growing peril. In War With Russia, Stephen F. Cohen--the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia--gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump's election and today's unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Cohen's views have made him, it is said, "America's most controversial Russia expert." Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create. War With Russia gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad?"--Amazon

Preface to Memorial edition / by Katarina vanden Heuvel -- Condolences, tributes, and appreciation -- To my readers -- Prologue: The Putin specter : who he is not -- part I. The new cold war erupts 2014-2015: Patriotic heresy vs. Cold War ; Distorting Russia ; Why cold war again? ; The détente imperative and parity principle -- part II. US follies and media malpractices: Secret diplomacy on Ukraine ; The Obama administration escalates military confrontation with Russia ; Another turning point in the new cold war ; The Obama administration attacks its own Syrian ceasefire ; Was Putin's Syria withdrawal really a "surprise"? ; Trump vs. triumphalism ; A fragile mini-détente in Syria ; "Information war" vs. embryonic détente ; The crisis of the US "Ukrainian project" ; Is war with Russia possible ; Stalin resurgent, again ; Has Washington gone rogue? ; Blaming Brexit on Putin and voters ; The imperative of a US-Russian alliance vs. terrorism ; The friends and foes of détente ; Neo-McCarthyism ; Cold-war casualties from Kiev to the 'New York times' ; More lost opportunities ; Another endangered chance to diminish the new cold war ; Who's making US foreign policy? ; Slouching toward war? ; Washington warmongers, Moscow prepares ; Did the White House declare war on Russia? ; Trump could end the new cold war ; The friends and foes of détente, II ; False narratives, not "fake news," are the danger ; Cold war hysteria vs. national security -- part III. Unprecedented dangers 2017: Did Putin really order a "cyber Pearl Harbor"? ; The real enemies of US security ; Ukraine revisited ; Kremlin-baiting President Trump ; Putin's own opponents of détente ; The "fog of suspicion" ; Neo-McCarthyism is now politically correct ; Yevtushenko's civic courage ; "Words are also deeds" ; Wartime "tears" in Moscow, cold war inquisition in Washington ; Terrorism and Russiagate ; "Details after the sports" ; Cold-War news not "fit to print" ; Historical monuments, from Charlottesville to Moscow ; The lost alternatives to Mikhail Gorbachev ; Does Putin really want to "destabilize the West"? ; Will Russia leave the West? ; The silence of the doves ; Has NATO expansion made anyone safer? ; More double standards ; The unheralded Putin : official anti-Stalinist no. 1 ; Russiagate zealots vs. national security ; Russia is not the "no. 1 threat" ; Why Russians think America is attaching them -- part IV. War with Russia? 2018: Four years of Maidan myths ; Russia "betrayed" not "news that's fit to print" ; US establishment finally declares "second Cold War" ; Russiagate or Intelgate? ; What Russiagate reveals about America's elites ; Russiagate amnesia or denialism ; How Washington provoked, and perhaps lost, a new nuclear arms race ; Russia endorses Putin, the US and UK condemn him (again) ; Russiaphobia ; Russiagate and the risk of a nuclear war ; Criminalizing Russia ; America's collusion with neo-Nazis ; "Informant" echoes of dark pasts ; Why this Cold War is more dangerous than the one we survived ; Summitgate vs. "peace" ; Trump as cold war heretic ; Sanction mania ; What the Brennan affair reveals ; Vital US moles in the Kremlin -- Afterword