Condemning All Things Russian

Tales of the New Cold War: Condemning All Things Russian

Stephen F. Cohen @NYU@Princeton eastwestaccord.com

(Russia Fears US Missile Attack. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the accusation during his year-in-review press conference on Monday, after claiming that the US had rebuffed a joint attempt by Russia and China to strike a wider agreement on the “militarization of space.”)

. . . Two of Obama’s intell chiefs: Brennan said Americans should avoid any contact with any Russian as it might lead down a slope to “treason”; and ___ said in a sort of ethnic slur that Russians are genetically predisposed to infiltrate and [sabotage] the United States. [These are certifiably insane –ed.] Sen Cardin’s false narrative and genuinely fake news. (Bradley Chelsea Manning will run against him.) Fifteen minutes to decide if the threat is real or not; retaliation would be basically the end of humans on Earth. Both the US and Russia could adopt a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons. Pres Obama initiated the extremely dangerous policy of . . .

JANUARY 10, 2018 https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-releases-report-detailing-two-decades-of-putins-attacks-on-democracy U.S. SENATOR BEN CARDIN RELEASES REPORT DETAILING TWO DECADES OF PUTIN’S ATTACKS ON DEMOCRACY, CALLING FOR POLICY CHANGES TO COUNTER KREMLIN THREAT AHEAD OF 2018, 2020 ELECTIONS

U.S. Remains Vulnerable to Russian Interference without Unequivocal Presidential Leadership, Learning Lessons from European Democracies

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The undistinguished Sen. Ben Cardin: Russia Is Trying to "Bring Down Our Way of Government… They Want Corruption to Reign"

Senator Ben Cardin, top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, joined MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Wednesday evening to reiterate the serious threat posed by Russia to American and Western institutions. Earlier that day, Cardin's office had prepared an omnibus report entitled: “Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security.” The report "finds that President Trump’s refusal to publicly acknowledge the threat posed by the Russian government has hampered efforts to mobilize our government, strengthen our institutions, and work with our European allies to counter Putin’s interference in democracies abroad." "Never before in American history has so clear a threat to national security been so clearly ignored by a U.S. president, and without a strong U.S. response, institutions and elections here and throughout Europe will remain vulnerable to the Kremlin’s aggressive and sophisticated malign influence operations," Cardin's report also adds