Emeritus Russia Scholar at Princeton: Obama, US are ‘Testing, Provoking Russia’, Pushing towards Hot War
Robert Barsocchini
WashingtonsBlog.com
February 9, 2016
Points from interview with Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University:
“The US in its history has never put troops so close to Russia, going back to the eighteenth century.” (Okay, this is factually incorrect; the US invaded Russia with some 13,000 troops in 1918.) Now the US is “right on Russia’s borders. … Obama cannot hide from this one in the shadows as he sometimes does regarding foreign policy. This is his decision” and now “NATO is going to quadruple its military power around Russia.”
“The new Cold War has become much hotter because of a decision taken in Washington” and is “more dangerous than the preceding Cold War”.
Saying the new Cold War is “solely due to Putin’s ‘aggression’” is “simply not true. At a minimum, both sides were responsible”, and in fact, as Cohen details, the US is the aggressor (which makes sense, as it has been expanding militarily since its inception, and is by far the largest military force in the world.)
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