Stephen Cohen. War with Russia?

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Putin Specter—Who He Is Not

Part I

The New Cold War Erupts 2014-2015

Patriotic Heresy vs. Cold War

Distorting Russia

Why Cold War Again?

The Détente Imperative and Parity Principle

Part II

US Follies and Media Malpractices 2016

Secret Diplomacy on Ukraine

The Obama Administration Escalates Military Confrontation With Russia

Another Turning Point in the New Cold War

The Obama Administration Attacks Its Own Syrian Ceasefire

Was Putin’s Syria Withdrawal Really A “Surprise”?

Trump vs. Triumphalism

A Fragile Mini-Détente In Syria

“Information War” vs. Embryonic Détente

The Crisis of the US “Ukrainian Project”

Is War With Russia Possible?

Stalin Resurgent, Again

Has Washington Gone Rogue?

Blaming Brexit on Putin and Voters

The Imperative of a US-Russian Alliance vs. Terrorism

The Friends and Foes of Détente

Neo-McCarthyism

Cold-War Casualties From Kiev to the New York Times

More Lost Opportunities

Another Endangered Chance to Diminish the New Cold War

Who’s Making US Foreign Policy?

Slouching Toward War?

Washington Warmongers, Moscow Prepares

Did the White House Declare War on Russia?

Trump Could End the New Cold War

The Friends and Foes of Détente, II

False Narratives, Not “Fake News,” Are the Danger

Cold War Hysteria vs. National Security

Part III

Unprecedented Dangers 2017

Did Putin Really Order a “Cyber–Pearl Harbor”?

The Real Enemies of US Security

Ukraine Revisited

Kremlin-Baiting President Trump

Putin’s Own Opponents of Détente

The “Fog of Suspicion”

Neo-McCarthyism Is Now Politically Correct

Yevtushenko’s Civic Courage

“Words Are Also Deeds”

Wartime “Tears” in Moscow, Cold War Inquisition in Washington

Terrorism and Russiagate

“Details After the Sports”

Cold-War News Not “Fit to Print”

Historical Monuments, from Charlottesville to Moscow

The Lost Alternatives of Mikhail Gorbachev

Does Putin Really Want to “Destabilize the West”?

Will Russia Leave the West?

The Silence of the Doves

Has NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer?

More Double Standards

The Unheralded Putin—Official Anti-Stalinist No. 1

Russiagate Zealots vs. National Security

Russia Is Not the “No. 1 Threat”

Why Russians Think America Is Attacking Them

Part IV

War With Russia? 2018

Four Years of Maidan Myths

Russia “Betrayed” Not “News That’s Fit to Print”

US Establishment Finally Declares “Second Cold War”

Russiagate or Intelgate?

What Russiagate Reveals About America’s Elites

Russiagate Amnesia or Denialism

How Washington Provoked—and Perhaps Lost—a New Nuclear-Arms Race

Russia Endorses Putin, The US and UK Condemn Him (Again)

Russophobia

Russiagate and the Risk of Nuclear War

Criminalizing Russia

America’s Collusion with Neo-Nazis

“Informant” Echoes of Dark Pasts

Why This Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the One We Survived

Summitgate vs. “Peace”

Trump as Cold War Heretic

Sanction Mania

What the Brennan Affair Reveals

“Vital” US Moles in the Kremlin