Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
An alarming development is that Stephen F. Cohen, the internationally prominent scholar of Russia,\u00a0is acknowledging that<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(1:35 on the video) \u201cfor 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,\u201d and he clearly and unequivocally places all of the blame for it on the U.S. leadership. He calls this \u201cpossibly a fateful turning-point in history.\u201d He also says \u201cit could be the beginning of the end of the so-called trans-Atlantic alliance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He goes on to say (2:20): \u201cThis problem began in the 1990s, when the Clinton Administration adopted a winner-take-all policy toward post-Soviet Russia \u2026 Russia gives, we take. \u2026 This policy was adopted by the Clinton Administration but is pursued by every [meaning both<\/i>] 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\u2019s borders, and Russia was entitled to no sphere of influence, at all, not even in Georgia, \u2026 or in Ukraine (with which Russia had been intermarried for centuries).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n He also speaks clearly about the misrepresentations of Putin by the American Government, and he clearly states (5:25): \u201cHe\u2019s more European than 99% of other Russians.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Regarding Ukraine (5:45): \u201cSince November of 2013, Putin has been not aggressive, but reactive, at every stage.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n 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): \u201cThis is an unprecedented situation in American politics. \u2026 This is exceedingly dangerous, and this is a failure of American democracy. Why it happened, I am not sure.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n He condemns (7:30) \u201cthis extraordinarily irrational [non] factual demonization of Putin \u2026 and this too is hard to explain.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Europe (8:40): \u201cNow things have begun to change. Europe is splitting on this.\u201d He acknowledges \u201cCrimea is not coming back [to Ukraine],\u201d and urges \u201ca Ukraine \u2013 and this is what the dispute began over \u2013 free to trade with Russia and with the West.\u201d And, \u201cno membership in NATO for Ukraine. \u2026 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.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Regarding Obama (13:00): \u201cI have never seen an American President make such personal remarks about a Russian leader [Putin] in public.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Regarding the existing Ukrainian Government (14:10): \u201cThis is not a democratic regime. \u2026 Unless the West stops supporting Kiev unconditionally, I fear we are drifting toward war with Russia.”<\/span><\/p>\n WOW! When even a word-mincer such as he, is stating that the U.S. Government is seeking to conquer Russia, that is news!<\/span><\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t even so much as mention the Ukrainian Government\u2019s war to eliminate the residents in the resisting region (Donbass \u2013 Ukraine\u2019s far-east)<\/span><\/a>. There is still a lot of the ugliness<\/span><\/a> that he covers up: Obama\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s a lot better than Cohen\u2019s\u00a0earlier<\/span><\/a>\u00a0mealy-mouthed\u00a0statements.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And what it shows to all of us is that he is now truly alarmed. Having started out by condemning \u201cAmerican hawks\u201d regarding Ukraine, he has finally come to condemning specifically both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama \u2013 two Democratic Party Presidents \u2013 and saying that democracy in America might itself already be gone, and that the end of civilization might be the result from all of this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Which ought to alarm us all.<\/span><\/p>\n Things are so scary<\/span><\/a> now, that even he is beginning to come close to saying publicly (to whatever small public the U.S. aristocracy will allow him to be heard) that America\u2019s corruption at the top is threatening the continued existence of civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n Implicit in his statements is that there is massive and systematic censorship and warping of the truth on the part of America\u2019s aristocrats. <\/span><\/p>\n Regarding the reason why Cohen had not previously been so alarmed and truth-telling about the Ukrainian situation, he provided a hint in this lecture \u2013 a lecture to a group of European scholars:<\/span><\/p>\n He said (7:55): \u201cWe thought, some of us [Americans] when we got together and talked in 2014, that you would come to our rescue \u2013 \u2018you\u2019 I mean Europe \u2013 \u2026 we thought that Europe being part of the same history as Russia, closer to Russia, economically embedded in Russia to an extent that the United States isn\u2019t, would put an end to this crisis. But instead most countries in the EU went along with Washington\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In other words: He (and, evidently, his friends) ignored the evidence, such as this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a>, all of which atrocities Obama supported and his White House was even personally implicated in<\/span><\/a>, which indicated that Obama was hard-charging into conquering Russia, and was using Ukraine as the proxy-state to make it happen, and had used Ukraine\u2019s nazis as his Ukrainian Government\u2019s spearhead<\/span><\/a>, specifically because Ukraine\u2019s nazis fanatically hate Russians and want them dead. <\/span><\/p>\n Elsewhere in his talk, Cohen said (12:45) that Obama is \u201ca weak foreign-policy leader.\u201d This is like Hitler-supporter David Irving\u2019s similarly explaining Hitler\u2019s bad decisions by saying that Hitler was a \u201cweak leader who was taken advantage of by his advisors.\u201d Cohen (and presumably also his friends) are like that about Obama: they simply refuse to consider the evidence that the man is evil \u2013 they ignore it; they don\u2019t want to see it. <\/span><\/p>\n Consequently, with such naivete about power, they were expecting people such as this<\/span><\/a> to block Obama. They shoved responsibility off onto Europeans. In other words: Cohen (and his friends) are blind to the ugliness in their own sty, because they want to be.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe before people like that open their eyes to what\u2019s happening, eveybody will be turned to nuclear char, and so such liberals won\u2019t even need to suffer disillusionment about the world in which they have lived.<\/span><\/p>\n Relying upon liberals to protect the world from fascists or even nazis, always fails. But that\u2019s all the aristocracy will even allow onto the field, at all (at least in America). Progressives, people who acknowledge the reality<\/span><\/a>, are portrayed simply as being kooks.<\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse An alarming development is that Stephen F. 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