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5th May 2014 from TwitLonger
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Why are Moscow’s arguments being widely debated in Germany, but not in America?
Before the Ukraine crisis deepened, a handful of unofficial dissenters did appear on mainstream television, radio and op-ed pages, but so few and fleetingly they seemed to be heretics awaiting banishment.
Their voices have since been muted by legions of cold warriors.
Both sides in the confrontation, the West and Russia, have legitimate grievances.
Does this mean, however, that the American establishment’s account of recent events should not be questioned?
That it was imposed on the West by Putin’s “aggression,” and this because of his desire “to re-create as much of the old Soviet empire as he can” or merely to “maintain Putin’s domestic rating.”
Does it mean there is nothing credible enough to discuss in Moscow’s side of the story?
That twenty years of NATO’s eastward expansion has caused Russia to feel cornered.
That the Ukraine crisis was instigated by the West’s attempt, last November, to smuggle the former Soviet republic into NATO.
That the West’s jettisoning in February of its own agreement with then-President Viktor Yanukovych brought to power in Kiev an unelected regime so anti-Russian and so uncritically embraced by Washington that the Kremlin felt an urgent need to annex predominantly Russian Crimea, the home of its most cherished naval base.
And, most recently, that Kiev’s sending of military units to suppress protests in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine is itself a violation of the April 17 agreement to de-escalate the crisis.
Future historians will certainly find some merit in Moscow’s arguments, and wonder why they are being widely debated in, for example, Germany, but not in America.
It may already be too late for the democratic debate the US elite owes our nation.
If so, the costs to American democracy are already clear.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
May 1, 2014
http://www.thenation.com/article/179579/cold-war-against-russia-without-debate