Did Stephen Cohen write that? He's the publishers husband
Posted on: June 14, 2018 at 10:17:55 CT
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and very well know Putin supporter. Not saying that's bad, but possibly a little bias. From his bio:
"During the Cold War, Cohen was critical of western hawks, but also of the Soviet government, which banned him from visiting the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1985.[4] He supported the perestroika reform program of Mikhail Gorbachev.[4]
Cohen has said that Putin's handling of the crisis in Ukraine—his annexation of Crimea and his support for rebel fighters in the east— was a reaction to the aggressive behavior of the United States and its allies, when they supported the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych and, in an article in the left-liberal publication The Nation, that the US political-media establishment was silent about "Kiev's atrocities" in the Donbass region which in turn was criticized by Cathy Young as "error-riddled" and an "embarrassing" repetition of Kremlin propaganda.[4][5][6] Cohen has also said that even if Putin's reaction was also aggressive, the US should now negotiate with Russia to avoid escalation of the conflict.[6] His views on Ukraine have been criticized by James Kirchick[7], Jonathan Chait[8] and Isaac Chotiner[9] as being pro-Putin and the Russian government[7] which Cohen, in turn, has rejected.[10][10]
Cohen has said that the USA continued the Cold War after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, citing Clinton's backtracking on the promise of his predecessor to not extend NATO eastward and the flawed interpretation of an "American victory" and a "Russian defeat" since the ex-President's tenure which led the American administrations to believe that Russia would submit completely to American foreign policy.[11] Moreover, Cohen cites the cancellation of the ABM Treaty in 2002 and the refusal of admission to the WTO at the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg 2006. Cohen also criticises the "pointless demonization" of Vladimir Putin as an "autocrat".[11] His views on US-Russian relations have been criticized by Julia Ioffe.[12]
In May 2017, Cohen criticized treason accusations against Trump from the media, saying that the "assault On President Trump from 'Fourth Branch Of Government' is designed to undermine the U.S.–Russia alliance against terrorism".[13]"