Posted on 03/21/2019 9:35:22 PM PDT by NorseViking
Heedless of the consequences, or perhaps welcoming them, America’s Cold Warriors and their media platforms have recently escalated their rhetoric against Russia, especially in March. Anyone who has lived through or studied the preceding 40-year Cold War will recognize the ominous echoes of its most dangerous periods, when actual war was on the horizon or a policy option. Here are only a few random but representative examples:
§ In a March 8 Washington Post opinion article, two American professors, neither with any apparent substantive knowledge of Russia or Cold War history, warned that the Kremlin is trying “to undermine our trust in the institutions that sustain a strong nation and a strong democracy. The media, science, academia and the electoral process are all regular targets.” Decades ago, J. Edgar Hoover, the policeman of that Cold War, said the same, indeed made it an operational doctrine.
§ Nor is the purported threat to America only. According to (retired) Gen. David Petraeus and sitting Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, also in the Post on the following day, the “world is once again polarized between two competing visions for how to organize society.” For Putin’s Kremlin, “the existence of the United States’ rule-of-law world is intrinsically threatening.” This is an “intensifying worldwide struggle.” So much for those who dismissed post–Soviet Russia as merely a “regional” power, including former President Barack Obama, and for the myopic notion that a new Cold War was not possible.
§ But the preceding Cold War was driven by an intense ideological conflict between Soviet Communism and Western capitalism. Where is the ideological threat today, considering that post–Soviet Russia is also a capitalist country? In a perhaps unprecedented nearly 10,000-word manifesto from March 14 in the front news pages of (again) the Post, Robert Kagan provided the answer: “Today, authoritarianism has
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Olog and others of its ilk are purely one dimensional in thought. Norse keep up what you are doing. There are many others who appreciate it and read and may not always post a response.
“to undermine our trust in the institutions that sustain a strong nation and a strong democracy. The media, science, academia...”
If Putin actually manages to undermine the US media, “science”, and academia, it will strengthen America !
Another article from The Nation which spears mainly left-wing targets. The old lines may be blurring.
If you would read the article it is costly critical towards Democrats.
Nation has obviously ignored the hysterical Dems Russia, Russia, Russia! narrative. If anyone is guilty of promoting a resumption of the cold war, it’s the old hag Hillary and her gang.
Thank you, Dave W. I honestly believe that the free exchange of opinions is the major stone in the foundation of liberty.
costly=mostly.
Well said. Those fields have been co-opted by the leftists.
funny that you included a moronic keyword calling names in your rant about moronic keyword name calling.
Ping.
Russia isn’t our enemy. The evil is within and most people would identify the far leftist Democrat Party.
the free exchange of opinions is the major stone in the foundation of liberty
Gee, Tucker Carlson and John Batchelor’s favorite KGB asset from the Soviet Union and now Russia, spouting his “oh so academic sounding” red propaganda again about the “bad, bad” warmongering United States.
Give it a rest Cohen. You’ve been spouting the commie line since the 70’s or earlier. Collect your rubles and the title to your summer dacha and get the hell out of America.
“” “” the free exchange of opinions is the major stone in the foundation of liberty
But not in a privately owned forum.”” “”
Yep, you are right. Some forums are pro-freedom and there are liberal forums which are against freedom and free speech.
He is arguing it is not a commie line anymore and also critical towards democrats.
Don’t ever trust anything Cohen says. He’s a veteran Soviet disinformation propagandist and academic fraud on the true intentions of the Soviet Union and now Putin.
In a Wash. Post reprint article from The Nation in 1983, he bragged that “The Soviet Union Isn’t a Basket Case”. Six years later, kaput.
Today’s western socialists and Marxists are russophobe nuts, LGBTQ manias.....
If you would read the article it is costly critical towards Democrats.
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One major difference between neocons and democrats is: democrats don’t proclaim themselves conservatives.
I’m no fan of the German leader Merkel but she did point out that hostility to Russia drives Russia in the direction of China and who wins then.
Trump has always wanted to talk to Russia and the fools harassing him for it are they on the Chinese payroll?
I believe Russia and China signed a mutual defense pact over a decade ago. The do hold military exercises together.
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