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The ongoing role of false narratives and historical fallacies. The Nation If America ‘Won the Cold War,’ Why Is There Now a ‘Second Cold War with Russia’? Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton UniversitySee alsoAgenda and hidden agenda. I have remarked on more than one occasion that Western perceptions of the Russian ‘threat’ have historically owed little to the real scale (or even existence) of that threat. Instead they have tended to be products of internal political debates within the West, with depictions of Russia as good or evil serving as tools to advance certain political agendas. Leo Strauss argued that underneath the surface meaning of any work of philosophy there is also a hidden meaning,
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The ongoing role of false narratives and historical fallacies. The Nation If America ‘Won the Cold War,’ Why Is There Now a ‘Second Cold War with Russia’? Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton UniversitySee alsoAgenda and hidden agenda. I have remarked on more than one occasion that Western perceptions of the Russian ‘threat’ have historically owed little to the real scale (or even existence) of that threat. Instead they have tended to be products of internal political debates within the West, with depictions of Russia as good or evil serving as tools to advance certain political agendas. Leo Strauss argued that underneath the surface meaning of any work of philosophy there is also a hidden meaning,
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Cold War 2
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The ongoing role of false narratives and historical fallacies.
The Nation
If America ‘Won the Cold War,’ Why Is There Now a ‘Second Cold War with Russia’?Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton University
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Agenda and hidden agenda.
I have remarked on more than one occasion that Western perceptions of the Russian ‘threat’ have historically owed little to the real scale (or even existence) of that threat. Instead they have tended to be products of internal political debates within the West, with depictions of Russia as good or evil serving as tools to advance certain political agendas. Leo Strauss argued that underneath the surface meaning of any work of philosophy there is also a hidden meaning, discernible only by a select few. One could say much the same about analyses of Russia: there’s the surface story – Russian aggression, Russian disinformation, Russian collusion, and so on – but there’s also something going on under the surface which constitutes the true purpose of the analysis in question….This, btw, is how the Russian government publicly portrays it — a domestic struggle within US politics.
Irrussianality
Russia as enemyPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa
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The Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra (lead image, left) resigned his post this week after admitting he had publicly and repeatedly lied that he had met with President Vladimir Putin when he had not done so.
The Dutch press, which initiated the investigation exposing the lie, reports that in his resignation speech to the Dutch parliament Zijlstra confessed “the biggest mistake of my political life… The Netherlands deserves a minister who is above any doubt.”
In Canada, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland – appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January 2017 — has been lying about meeting President Putin when she did not.
No Canadian newspaper has investigated Freeland’s lying, and she has expanded the lie to meetings with other Russian officials, which also did not happen. The Toronto Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) have also failed to report Zijlstra’s resignation for his Putin lie; their editors blocked the Reuters and Bloomberg wire reports, which have been running on Canadian newsroom screens, from appearing in print.Is pretty boy Justin Trudeau a snake in the grass, or just naive (dumb)? This is not the half of it with Chrystia Freeland.
Dances with Bears
What Is the Difference Between the Lies the Dutch Foreign Minister and the Canadian Foreign Minister Have Been Telling About President Vladimir Putin? There’s No Difference.
John Helmer
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