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"We Are Not Beginning a New Cold War, We Are Well Into It": Stephen Cohen on Russia-Ukraine Crisis

www.democracyno... - As negotiations over the crisis in Ukraine begin in Geneva, tension is rising in the Ukrainian east after security forces killed three pro-Russian protesters, wounded 13 and took 63 captive in the city of Mariupol. Ukrainian officials said the pro-Russian separatists had attempted to storm a military base. The killings came just after the unraveling of a Ukrainian operation to retake government buildings from pro-Russian separatists. Earlier today, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the authorities in Kiev of plunging the country into an "abyss" and refused to rule out sending forces into Ukraine. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has announced a series of steps to reinforce its presence in eastern Europe. "We will have more planes in the air, more ships on the water and more readiness on the land," Rasmussen said. We are joined by Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University. "We are not at the beginning of a new Cold War, we are well into it," Cohen says, "which alerts us to the fact 'hot war' is imaginable now. It's unlikely, but it's conceivable -- and if it's conceivable, something has to be done about it."
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  • @lewstherintelamon1377
    @lewstherintelamon13772 жыл бұрын

    Reviewing this eight years later, I have to ask: What happened to you, Amy? I turn on your broadcasts now, be they concerning Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Near East, and all I hear is pro-war shilling for the American Empire. With this interview, eight years ago, you set what ought to have been the standard for the liberal (note: liberal, not Left) press. What the hell happened?

  • @bouji_

    @bouji_

    2 жыл бұрын

    Trump happened.

  • @diesenutss

    @diesenutss

    Жыл бұрын

    Bruh she still brings on guests that go into thorough detail of U.S. atrocities lmao.

  • @tninbrickveneer8816

    @tninbrickveneer8816

    Жыл бұрын

    If I say the same thing as you, they call me anti-American and I'm not.

  • @lewstherintelamon1377

    @lewstherintelamon1377

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tninbrickveneer8816 The kids do call me anti-American. I'm old and cranky enough to remember that being an American isn't about saying "Sir, yes Sir!" when authority tells you to do something; it's about saying "NO" to authority when authority is wrong.

  • @gobeklitepe6860

    @gobeklitepe6860

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tninbrickveneer8816 just label them as NATO boys or girls

  • @pressmonkeyindependentmedi7014
    @pressmonkeyindependentmedi70142 жыл бұрын

    One of DN's most important and best interviews ever. Its even more timely now

  • @TheTamriel
    @TheTamriel10 жыл бұрын

    Excellent statements by Stephen Cohen Muchas gracias, DemocracyNow

  • @vadim921

    @vadim921

    10 жыл бұрын

    Good channel, I like it))

  • @requiemforamerica8432
    @requiemforamerica843210 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for having this very informed guest on.

  • @Vicioues
    @Vicioues10 жыл бұрын

    If you have a look at hugo chavez coup and the coup in Ukraine they are almost the same in which the US operated them, only difference was Chavez out smart them.

  • @ryanmilton2643
    @ryanmilton26432 жыл бұрын

    And who will replace Stephen Cohen to bring back sanity to the debate today? Does DemocracyNOW toe the line? Mr. Cohen was right.

  • @jonathankiehne842
    @jonathankiehne84210 жыл бұрын

    Excellent segment. You guys keep up the good work.

  • @Hud23
    @Hud23 Жыл бұрын

    Remember when DN used to push back against war and state department lies? Hard to watch them now.

  • @robertglenn5398
    @robertglenn539810 жыл бұрын

    When President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev successfully negotiated the first nuclear treaty behind the backs of their respective hawks, we had a chance to kill the Cold War in 1962. JFK's seminal speech at American University foretold his eventuate policy outlines for his second administration...and overall end to the Cold War, Vietnam and a general winding down of the military industrial complex and hawkish foreign policy. His Soviet counterpart stated that his was the best speech he'd ever heard. Likewise, Nikita was attempting to do what he could in order to foster a diverse state of affairs between the two super powers. Since the assassination of JFK and the overthrow of Khrushchev months later, we've witnessed another quarter century of Cold War proxys, the deaths of millions for no reason and a succession of absolute idiots inhabiting the White House and at times the Kremlin. Today's evolving Cold War might very well get hot soon for no other reason than today's leaders lack in spades the wisdom of their antecedents. They are in a word, idiots...fucking idiots.

  • @tninbrickveneer8816

    @tninbrickveneer8816

    Жыл бұрын

    si yo digo lo mismo me llaman antiestadounidense pero no lo soy, pienso igual que tu pero los medios de Comunicacion masivos hacen estupida a la gente

  • @robertrichard6107

    @robertrichard6107

    Жыл бұрын

    Gov. W Bush couldn't get NATO to land jelly side up in Ukraine so Tori NewLand was sent to rescue the poor Neo-NAZI's.

  • @HegelsOwl
    @HegelsOwl Жыл бұрын

    U.S., 1983: "There's been a coup in Grenada: We must invade Grenada to protect American lives." Russia, 2014: "There's been a coup in Ukraine. We must invade Ukraine to protect Russian lives." U.S., 2014: "Wait a minute: You can't do that -- Ukraine is a sovereign nation!"

  • @tninbrickveneer8816

    @tninbrickveneer8816

    Жыл бұрын

    siempre es labmisma mierdavpaso en Colombia, Peru, etc.

  • @zodiackiller4743
    @zodiackiller47432 жыл бұрын

    Word for word true predicitor easy ahead of his time

  • @myhatmygandhi6217

    @myhatmygandhi6217

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most people knew that NATO expansion was a terrible idea, but the US government want war because war is guaranteed profit.

  • @dodododatdatdat

    @dodododatdatdat

    2 жыл бұрын

    ye its slam dunks on truth after slam dunk. He will be sorely missed in these reckless and bloodthirsty times. Unfortunately what he says cant be said anymore and thats an absolute INDICTMENT on the western propaganda machine we live under. Im hoping on diplomacy from our incapable leadership, all they seem to see in cashmoney and misery.

  • @dereckvon
    @dereckvon10 жыл бұрын

    Pathetic politics continually wrecking life.

  • @Bdubwags

    @Bdubwags

    10 жыл бұрын

  • @planetwalker

    @planetwalker

    10 жыл бұрын

    It's what they do best. Political gangsters abusing the public.

  • @ThisNinjaSays_
    @ThisNinjaSays_ Жыл бұрын

    Rest in Peace Professor Cohen. Unfortunately the warmongers in DC won.

  • @SeNgokuRaiden00
    @SeNgokuRaiden0010 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @waterproofcat1
    @waterproofcat110 жыл бұрын

    I fucking love this Channel

  • @honorhonor3352
    @honorhonor33522 жыл бұрын

    Future foretold.

  • @christiansurname4160
    @christiansurname416010 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who never knew Gomer Pyle was in NATO?

  • @christopherpifer4376
    @christopherpifer43769 жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @dannyparkersmith
    @dannyparkersmith10 жыл бұрын

    CFR ?

  • @tatianalyulkin410
    @tatianalyulkin410 Жыл бұрын

    I've always loved and admired Ariel Dorfman. But never in my worst nightmares could I have foreseen that in 2014 I will become the female Ukrainian version of him. And of course nobody bothered to ask me if I was up to the part or even wanted it in the first place.

  • @krevetka9744

    @krevetka9744

    Жыл бұрын

    Похоже я следую конкретно по вашим следам. Под каждым третьим старым видео которое смотрю вижу ваш коммент xD

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie694010 жыл бұрын

    From 2009-2010 Polish and German officials invited Russia again to joint NATO. However though the Russian Envoy to NATO said Russia may join later, he explicitly said, "Great powers don't join coalitions, they create coalitions. Russia considers itself a great power." It seems that Russia though was at least wanted to be seen to be wanting to keep its options open, at least at that time, had no intention to joining the west other than allowing it to using its energy soft power. Similarly, Russia is trying to make natural gas deals with the P.R.C. but even after years of negotiation as of April 2014 nothing has been finalized, partly on price, partly on Russia use of it to control other countries, and even China, who has little interest in a country's internal politics, is getting a little wary of Russia after the Crimea invasion remembering Russia as one of many European powers participating in trying to carve up China in the 19th and 20th century.

  • @marshalljulie3676

    @marshalljulie3676

    Жыл бұрын

    Lies 😂😂

  • @buskingkarma2503
    @buskingkarma2503 Жыл бұрын

    Say what!

  • @antspunning6797
    @antspunning679710 жыл бұрын

    program guest forgets one important thing, putin wish to get back old soviet union or russian empire boarders. i live in Estonia, right next to russia and i dont want my country annected by russians again. russia still have not sed even sorry for sending people from Estonia to siberia and has not sed sorry for any other crime soviet russia did here. we have enough colorado beetles here sins soviet occupation yelling rossia rossia. and what says putler, that russia has every right to start war against 1,3 million people in Estonia O_o should we not be concerned here? 140 million people affraid 1,3 million people?

  • @svenhanson398

    @svenhanson398

    2 жыл бұрын

    US has not said sorry to any country they have killed people in. But are the rest of the world have to live under this paranoia that is obvious in the East, just because your country and all the other ex soviet victims have had such a bad recent past. Because that is what we are now going to live with. A very smart move and thanks for that. I live in Sweden, have always seen the Baltic state in a very good light but seeing how Lithuanian politicians and others from the Baltic are talking, just putting more fire to this madness i wonder now. The experience must have made you mentally sick, deal with it and dont put the whole world on fire

  • @KingMinosxxvi

    @KingMinosxxvi

    10 ай бұрын

    You forget that you are full ofBS!

  • @francism.1208
    @francism.12082 жыл бұрын

    The west has too much talking conferencing , smeared with playing safe altitude, Ukraine needs help ,heavy military equipments without limitations to defend it's freedom and independence.

  • @hairtrigger8317

    @hairtrigger8317

    2 жыл бұрын

    After what they've done in the Donbass region for the last 8 years after the 2014 coup they brought this war on themselves. I'm not ok with giving anymore aid to Ukraine, they have a rampant ultra nationalist/Nazi problem. Should have let those people in the Donbass have their freedom instead of cracking down on them with brutality.

  • @user-wj6dt5bq3w

    @user-wj6dt5bq3w

    Ай бұрын

    Wrong, Ukraine needs to make peace and stop dying for Crimea and Donbas which they don't need.

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