The Nation: a new cold war is more dangerous than the previous
Involvement of the American media and political elite of unleashing a " new cold war " against Russia have no analogues in modern history, according to a publication of the famous American scientist Stephen Cohen, co-written with Catherine Vanden Heuvel. Article published century
A new " cold war " may become even more dangerous than the previous one: its center is located in the most of Russia's borders, it does not apply the stabilizing political measures to prevent the aggravation of confrontation in the past, and it is accompanied by a stream of disinformation in the media.
The policy of isolation of Russia, declared the White house, will lead to a new nuclear arms race, to the same provocative statements of the US President only worsen the situation, assured the authors.
with weapons of NATO and Russia is already concentrated in the Western and the Eastern borders of Ukraine, and at the same time, Pro-American government in Kiev publicly heralds a " third world war ".
All This happens with the unanimous support of the entire political spectrum in the United States: the left and right, and the Republicans, and Democrats. In shaping and reflecting the only political opinion involves All major media. Several dissidents making a different point of view to deepening Ukrainian fall, looked like heretics, pending expulsion. Their voices are drowned out the legions of " soldiers of the cold war, specialists say.
however, most of the arguments of the capital of Russia deserve attention. Twenty years of NATO enlargement to the East has forced the Russian Federation to feel like a ride in a corner, and the Ukrainian crisis was provoked by the West in November of the past year, in order to smuggle the former Soviet Republic into NATO, consider Cohen and Vanden Heuvel. In February of this year the West " merged " its own Treaty with then-President Viktor Yanukovych. This has led to power in Kiev illegitimate regime, so anti-Russian and selflessly dedicated to Washington that the Kremlin felt the urgency of the accession predominantly Russian Crimea (the location is very dear to his heart naval base). Finally, literally not so long ago, Kyiv sent a military unit on the suppression of protests in Pro-Russian Eastern regions of Ukraine in violation of the agreement of 17 April About de-escalate the fall.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.