Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Julia Ioffe: Putin’s American toady at ‘The Nation’ gets even toadier
Portraits of general prosecutors thrown by a pro-Russian activist burn after a crowd of some 300 pro-Russian activists stormed the prosecutor's office in eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 1, 2014. The mob hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at around 100 riot police defending the building, who responded with stun grenades and tear gas, in the latest unrest to hit the crisis-wracked eastern part of Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
If there’s a popular consensus out there, you can be sure that Stephen F. Cohen is going to disagree with it, because that’s the kind of original thinker Stephen F. Cohen is. In fact, he’s so original, he’ll even disagree with a consensus that doesn’t exist, as he does in his most recent column, penned with his wife and employer, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of The Nation. In it, Cohen alleges that Barack Obama has unilaterally declared a new Cold War against Russia, and that the entire monolithic crowd girded by the Washington Beltway has been utterly, silently complicit.
