Stephen Cohen on the Cold War

1 Year Ago: "The New US-Russian Cold War Originated in the 1990s" 

Stephen F. Cohen @nyu@princeton

Today it threatens to destroy Ukraine, undermine the European Union, and result in nuclear war.

Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new American-Russian Cold War. This installment begins with Cohen’s commentary on Russian President Putin’s remarkable statements, in a recent interview, that post-Soviet Russia was itself, not the West, responsible for the misery into which the country fell in the 1990s (a tacit but harsh criticism of his own patron, then President Boris Yeltsin). More importantly, Putin blames the Yeltsin government for not resisting the beginning of US encroachment on Russia’s security in the 1990s through the eastward expansion of NATO, resulting in today’s new Cold War. Cohen ..."

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