The new "witch-hunt" in the US leads to war

24 March 2017, 18:05 | Policy
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Anti-Russian hysteria in the American media and in power circles will lead to an armed conflict between Moscow and Washington, says The Nation columnist, historian and political scientist Stephen Cohen. RIA Novosti notes that in analyzing the current situation Cohen uses the term "neo-McCarthyism". The obstruction that Democrats and liberals place on Trump and his team is reminiscent of the "witch-hunt" times, when, under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy, people persecuted in America who were considered Communists.

The political scientist notes that US officials are zealously demanding that they "expose" people who have or have had contacts with Russia in the past. As a result, not only critics of US policy toward Russia were suspected, but also those who are married to Russians and those who are often in the Russian Federation. According to Cohen, in "anti-Americanism" today you can suspect thousands of people, including scientists, journalists, diplomats, businessmen and cultural figures.

The Observer The Nation considers this approach destructive, as it nullifies decades of painstaking work on the Russian-American arms agreements. However, the American media pour oil on the fire. The theme of the "Trump-Putin conspiracy" is popular among the mainstream media from The New York Times and the Washington Post to New Yorker and Politico and the networks from MSNBC and CNN to NPR. Speculation on the topic did not escape even the Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman, who published an article on the "dual mode" of Putin-Trump "in NYT. Cohen believes that the words about the "conspiracy" of Trump and Putin are not supported by facts and are accompanied only by estimates. Moreover, the above-mentioned mass media do not turn to people who are not strangers to alternative views on the problem.

The same approach was demonstrated by the creators of the CNN film about Vladimir Putin, says the political scientist.. Interpreting the "thoughts and motivation" of the Russian president turned out to be worse than banal simplification, Cohen writes.

In his opinion, the film's authors ignored all the important factors - political, social, economic, international, which did not stop them from reaching a conclusion about the Russian "attack on American democracy". As for those who disagree with the underhanded treatment of newsmakers, they are automatically recognized as "Putin's apologists".

Stephen Cohen predicts the worsening of the US Cold War against Russia. The media and politicians can make it so that a real war with Russia, a nuclear war, will be inevitable. Will there be influential Americans, ready to protest this logic, asks Cohen.




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