... which foreign leaders. While mainstream American media is still basically covering the race with horrified ... ... anticipated presidency of another Clinton. At the moment, Russia seems to be one of those countries. However,... ... essence, Democrats always have to defend against the accusation of being foreign policy weaklings. This accusation ... ... lead-up to the 2004 election, when some analysts warned, ‘if Democrats are to have any hope of ... ... security establishment that chronically view Russia with Cold War attitudes, regardless of evidence.[6] • During ...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in the formal National Security Strategy (NSS) of President Obama with actual testimony given by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In 2010 the NSS asserted that the U.S. would endeavor to ‘build a stable, substantive, multidimensional relationship with Russia, based on mutual interests.’ What’s more, the NSS called Russia a 21st century ...
... decided chicken-and-egg quality when trying to unravel Russian-American relations. The general pessimism and ... ... more accurate to describe Putin’s hostility toward America as one far more deeply rooted in frustration.... ... Cohen astutely called several years back as ‘Cold War Triumphalism.’ In basic terms, since ... ... initiatives can be found backing up such radical accusations. More calm analyses find Russia simply not ... ... support and encouragement, at least through formal media declarations and diplomatic speeches, did not ...
... This is especially prominent in explaining the poor relationship at the moment with Russia. There seems to be an element of purposeful animosity in the way Russia is viewed... ... interesting, really does not amount to more than just gossip and hearsay. Worse, American media and political analysts adopted it almost wholly as fact rather than as one perspective... ... placed the Democratic Party as squarely pessimistic and adversarial in its attitude toward Russia as the Republicans. Indeed, in today’s environment of divided government...
There are numerous think tanks, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the state of Russian-American relations. Places ... ... Centre or the Brookings Institution in Washington DC are regular go-to places for the media when seeking expert opinion and analysis. However, these centers of independent... ... force-influence its foreign policy. So why should Russia? It is this very simple and straightforward question that seems to never be asked by what are otherwise august media institutions...
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ and preconceptions.... ... counter-arguments and alternative information. Others pointed to embedded preconceptions within the Intelligence Community itself, making it impossible to jump off the analytical train... ... need to move beyond ‘factor wars’ designed to show that one favorite causal factor is more important than another, concentrating instead on the combined and...
New sanctions were levied against Russia on July 16th by both the United States and the European ... ... this conflict for the past half year, we have had heard this accusation at least half a dozen times. Sometimes there has been evidence ... ... LAUNCHED ANY OFFENSIVES. Given this indisputable evidence that even intelligence and diplomatic agencies in the West admit, it seems ... ... is that they will try to hunker down for ‘extended urban warfare.’ The irony of course is that the force in Eastern ...
... way or another. In the Maidan revolution this was not the case: Russia was very much interested in the long-term geostrategic consequences ... ... consequences. To this day you will be hard-pressed to find much Western media/academic coverage analyzing or considering legitimate Russian ... ... obvious going back two months that they were completely caught unaware and off-guard that anyone on the outside would have words ... .... Eastern Ukraine remains unsettled. More casualties mount. Accusations fly about Russian subterfuge as authorities in Kiev violently ...
