War with Russia?: From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate

Index

adoption of Russian children, 70, 105

Afghanistan, 8, 123, 138, 199

Albright, Madeleine, 28

Aleppo, Syria, 38, 45, 57, 64, 66, 68, 74, 80, 126

Allison, Graham, 173

Al-Nusra, 61

American Committee on East-West Accord, xii, 13

American Committee to Protect Journalists, 6

Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, 111, 139, 165

anti-Semitism, 7, 95, 180, 182

anti-Stalinists, 47, 127–131

anti-Western, Putin/Russia as, 8, 172

Assad, Bashar, 8, 37, 52, 70, 96, 103, 174–175

Austria, 72, 73

Azov Battalion, 180

Baker, James, 147

Balkan wars, 126

bans, 53, 70, 105

Batchelor, John, ix-x, xii

Biden, Joseph, 36, 59, 67–68, 139, 145–146

Binney, William, 133

Blackwill, Robert D., 150

Blow, Charles, 90–91, 95, 132, 158, 195

Blumenthal, Richard, 120

Boston Marathon bombing (2012), 8

Brennan, John, 103, 132, 153–154, 155, 172, 176–177, 195, 201–204, 206

Brexit, 50–51, 72, 73

Brezhnev, Leonid, 27, 47, 94

Browder, William, 105

Bruni, Frank, 211

Bukharin, Nikolai, xi

Bulgaria, 72

Bush, George H.W., 27, 137, 147

Bush, George W. (administration), 2, 111, 113, 138–139, 181

BuzzFeed, 81, 86, 153

Carden, James, xii

Cardin, Benjamin, 71, 151

Carpenter, Michael, 145

Carter, Ashton, 36, 37, 55, 61

Carter, Jimmy, 27

ceasefire agreement (Syria), 35–36, 37, 42

Center for American Progress, 184–185

Center for the National Interest, 178

Chechnya, 3, 20, 112

chemical weapons, 96, 103, 174–175

China, 23, 51, 90, 136, 151, 212

The Chronicle Review, xi

CIA, 162, 196. See also Brennan, John

Clapper, James, 103, 121, 132, 153, 172, 176–177, 206

climate change, 135

Clinton, Bill (administration), 24, 57–58, 82, 113, 120, 122, 134, 137–138, 196

Clinton, Hillary, 37, 41, 49, 55, 79, 85, 96, 106, 139, 208

CNN, 20, 80–81, 86, 91, 104, 148, 184, 209

Cold War, 118, 119, 137, 198. See also new Cold War

Comey, James, 93, 99, 100, 101, 132, 153, 156, 172

“Committee to Investigate Russia,” 121

“Common European Home,” 124

Corker, Bob, 195

Corn, David, 184

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 149–150, 163

coups, 17–18, 23, 53, 115, 144, 196

Crimea, 23, 25, 45, 56, 83, 111, 114, 123

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 23, 49, 65, 79, 101, 174

cyber-hacking, Russian, 68, 86–87. See also Russiagate

Cyprus, 72

D’Ambrose, Ricky, xii

Daniels, Stormy, 175

Dean, Howard, 20–21

Democratic National Committee, 49, 74, 79, 86–87, 120, 177

détente, 13

ending bans and, 70

mini-détente in Syria, 40–41, 53

parity principle, 27–29, 70–71

Putin’s opponents on, 89–90

support and opposition to, 53–54

Syrian agreement sabotaged by American enemies of, 64

Trump and, 69–70, 71

US opposition to, 71–72

diplomacy. See also détente

collapse of, in Syria, 64–65, 66

Obama-Putin Syrian, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64

secret, on Ukraine, 33–34

of Trump with Russia, 131–133

US toward post-Soviet Russia, 137–140

Donbass rebels, 18, 33, 54, 61, 83, 114, 123, 144, 145, 187

Donetsk, Ukraine, 18, 19

dossier, anti-Trump Steele, 81, 86, 87, 103, 104, 106, 152–156, 183, 208

Dutch referendum, 43, 44, 45

Eades, Oren, xii

economic sanctions, 49, 64, 70, 106, 140, 169, 197–201, 212

economy/economic system, under Putin, 4–5

Eisenhower, Dwight, 26, 27, 60, 69, 88, 191-192, 211

elections, Russian (March, 2018), 167–168, 169

elections, US. See presidential election (2016)

Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 53

Eurasian Economic Union, 57

Europe

diminishing political deference to US by, 72

false narrative on “transatlantic alliance,” 73

Putin’s economic relations with, 113

Ukraine’s integration into, 22

European Union (EU), 17, 22, 44, 45, 83. See also Brexit

European Union Partnership Agreement, 86

ExxonMobil, 75, 82, 93, 97, 98

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Soviet Russia (Cohen), xi, 138

fake news, 73–74, 120

fascism, 6–7, 126, 181–182. See also neo-fascism

FBI, 86, 87, 120–121, 153, 154, 155, 162

Flynn, Michael, 87–88, 184

Foer, Franklin, 54, 184

Foglesong, David S., 173

Ford, Gerald, 27

Foreign Affairs, 145, 149, 171

foreign policy. See also diplomacy

lack of cooperation with Russia, 62–63

toward Russia, American public opinion on, 211

Trump’s views on US, 39–40, 42–43

US attack on Syrian Army forces, 62

Fox News, 173

France, 73

Freeman, Morgan, 120

Friedman, Thomas, 85

G20 meeting (2016), 58–60

Gaddafi, Moammar, 37, 125–126

Gallup poll, 211

Gazprom, 93

Geneva peace negotiations, 45

Georgia (country), 1, 7, 22, 24, 29, 113, 139, 187

Germany, 72, 73, 122, 147

Gershman, Carl, 139

glasnost, 47, 94, 111

Goldberg, Jeffrey, 54

Goldberg, Michelle, 195

Golinkin, Lev, xii, 180–181

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 3, 27, 47, 53, 67, 69, 105, 110–112, 116, 128, 137, 138, 147, 164–165

Gordon, Philip H., 150

Graham, Lindsay, 71, 84, 91, 175

Greece, 72

Haass, Richard, 150

Haberman, Maggie, 103–104

hacking. See cyber-hacking, Russian

Haley, Nikki, 93, 209

Halper, Stefan, 183–184

Hannity, Sean, 155

Hayden, Michael, 184

Heilmann, John, 159

Helsinki Accords (1975), 28

Helsinki Trump-Putin summit meeting (2018), 186 191–194, 201

Hersh, Seymour, 103

Holbrooke, Richard, 24

“holiday with tears,” 99

Hollande, Francois, 26, 33, 59

Hoover, J. Edgar, 93, 153–154

hot war, 28, 46, 69, 91, 186–187, 209–210. See also proxy wars

Hungary, 73

Ignatius, David, 126

IMF (International Monetary Fund), 41, 57, 58

impeachment of Trump, 81, 85, 175, 202

income inequality, 135–136

India, 51

informants, 183–186, 204–205

Intel, 96, 104, 105, 120, 184, 204, 205

“Intelgate,” 99–100, 133, 152–157, 183

Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), 87, 103, 133, 153, 183

Iran, 8, 88, 90, 135, 165, 178–179, 199

Iraq, 74, 113, 123, 126, 196

Iraq War, 123, 133, 207

Isikoff, Michael, 184

ISIS, 38, 61, 135, 140

Israel, 101, 161, 180, 210

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 63

Italy, 72, 73

Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 198

Jaresko, Natalie, 41

jihadist forces, 64, 68, 100

The John Batchelor Show, ix-x

Johnson, David, xii

Johnson, Lyndon B., 26–27

Johnson’s Russia List, xii

journalists, murder of, 6

Kaliningrad, 45

Kennan, George, 13, 171–172

Kennedy, John F., 26, 79, 101

Kerry, John, 18, 34–35, 40, 45, 53, 55, 66

KGB, 5–6, 185

Khanna, Ro, 182

Khrushchev, Nikita, 26, 47, 94, 127

Kirchik, James, 202

Kissinger, Henry, 1, 90, 101

kleptocratic economic system, 4–5

Kosovo, 24, 111, 123, 126, 138

Kramer, David, 4

Krauthammer, Charles, 24

Kristof, Nicholas, 2, 89, 93

Krugman, Paul, 55, 89, 145, 183–184

Kushner, Jared, 101, 102

Lavrov, Sergei, 35, 40, 45, 66–67, 101

Lemon, Don, 184

liberal Democrats, 120–121, 196, 203

Libya, 36, 37, 38, 123, 125–126, 139

Lippmann, Walter, 146

Litvinenko, Alexander, 6

Lizza, Ryan, 121

Los Angeles Times, 202

Luhansk, Ukraine, 18, 19

Lyons, Tony, xii

Macron, Emmanuel, 107, 204

Maddow, Rachel, 66, 85

Magnitsky Act, 105, 198

Maidan protests, 17, 36, 114, 140, 144, 179, 212

Manafort, Paul, 57, 58, 86, 162, 163, 184, 208

Matlock, Jack F. Jr., 3, 27, 101, 137

Matthews, Chris, 93

McCain, John, 1–2, 23, 71, 84, 86, 93, 169, 181, 195

McCarthyism, 54, 55. See also neo-McCarthyism

McFaul, Michael, 88, 101, 198

media, Russian, 136–137

media, US. See US media

Medvedev, Dmitri, 46, 96–97, 139, 146, 198

Meet the Press, 67–68, 103

memorials, 128–129, 130–131

Merkel, Angela, 26, 33, 59, 204

Merz, Charles, 146

Mettan, Guy, 173

Mifsud, Joseph, 185

Milbank, Dana, 93, 135, 159, 177

military buildup, along Russia’s border, 45–46, 48–49, 99, 125

Minsk Accords, 26, 33, 36, 45, 56, 59, 61, 84, 144, 187, 211

Moldova, 72

mole in Kremlin, 205–206

Montenegro, 122

Morell, Michael, 184

Mosul, Iraq, 126

Moynihan, Patrick, 16

MSNBC, 20, 61, 85, 91, 96, 104, 135, 148, 184

Mueller, Robert, 121, 153

Muratov, Dmitri, xii, 110

Murdoch, Rupert, 42

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), 164

The Nation, x, xi, xii, 110

national security

5 threats to, 134–136

real enemies of US, 80–82

Russiagate and, 131–133, 158

National Security Archive, 138, 147–148

NATO

annexation of Kosovo, 126, 138

expansion eastward/to Russian borders, 16, 22, 23, 24, 29, 111, 138, 139, 147–148, 165, 187, 193

military presence on Russia’s borders, 34, 45–46, 48, 64, 99

security from expansion of, 122–125

Ukraine and, 7, 17, 24, 123, 139

US media on, 192–193

US-Russian proxy wars and, 7

NATO summit, 192–193

Navalny, Alexei, 169

Nazi-Soviet Pact, 81

Nemtsov, Boris, 6

neo-fascism, 144, 145, 179, 180, 181

neo-McCarthyism, 54–55, 60, 62, 75, 79, 92–93, 119, 203

neo-Nazism, 6, 126, 179–182

nerve agent attack, 170–171, 200

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 49

Netherlands, the, 72, 73

new Cold War. See also Russiagate

allegations of Putin’s aggression and, 7–8

consequences of, 23–24

deepening of, 25–26

de-militarization of, 38

détente/parity principle and, 26–29

explanation for, 24

fallacies and facts on, 16–18

false narratives on, 73–74

isolation of Russia from the West and, 117

lack of American opposition to, 118–121

lack of discourse on, 13–16

militarization of, 34–35

as more dangerous than its predecessor, 186–191, 207

Trump ending, 69–71

US double standards and, 125–127

US elites and, 211, 212

US policies/objectives and, 24–25

New Republic, 20, 146

New Yorker, 121, 159, 209

New York Times, xi, 2, 19, 37, 55, 57, 58, 61, 64, 65, 75, 81, 89, 90, 95, 103–104, 105, 120, 129, 132, 145, 146, 147–148, 153, 172, 183–184, 195, 202, 206, 208

NGOs, US-funded, 22, 24

Nixon, Richard, 27, 60, 69, 88, 131, 211

no-first-use of nuclear weapons, 59

Nord Stream 2 pipeline, 204

North Korea, 132, 179, 199

Novaya Gazeta, xii, 6, 110

NPR, 148

nuclear weapons/war, 59, 65, 71, 90, 110–111, 135, 163–166, 174–176, 177–178, 188, 207

Nuland, Victoria, 22–23, 33

Nunes, Devin, 152, 159

Obama, Barack (administration)

cooperation with Russia/Putin and, 44, 52–53, 56

détente and, 72

diplomacy with Russia, 139–140

DNC scandal and, 87, 120

expelled Russian diplomats, 80, 106

G20 meeting, 58–59

on isolating Russia, 33, 73

Libya and, 36, 38, 125–126, 139

military confrontation with Russia, 34–35

Syria and, 48–49

on terrorists in Aleppo, 68

Ukrainian crisis and, 18, 44, 114–115

on US as the indispensable nation, 28

Ohr, Nellie, 155

“Orange Revolution,” 24

Osnos, Evan, 159

Page, Carter, 152, 184

Pakistan, 51

Palmyra, Syria, 40, 42

Panama Papers, 42, 43

Papadopoulos, George, 185

parity principle, 27–29, 188

Parker, Kathleen, 158

Parry, Robert, 120

Parubiy, Andrei, 181

Paul, Rand, 93, 196

PBS, 148

Pence, Mike, 88

perestroika, 47, 116

Peters, Ralph, 173

Pipes, Richard, 118

political correctness, 93

Politkovskaya, Anna, 6

Pompeo, Mike, 135

Poroshenko, Petro, 26, 33, 36, 42, 43, 54, 59, 61, 144, 187

Postol, Theodore, 68, 103

Power, Samantha, 45, 62, 121

presidential election (2016), 127, 177. See also Russiagate

G20 meeting and, 60

Kremlin cyber-invasions, 74–75

New York Times Manafort article, 57, 58

sanction mania and Russia’s meddling in, 200–201

pro-Stalinism, 4, 46, 47, 129–130

proxy wars, 1, 7, 13, 24, 29, 187

Putin, Vladimir

as “aggressor,” 7–8, 17, 83, 140, 169, 196, 210

anti-détente sentiment and, 71

apologists, 14–15

blaming Brexit on, 50–51

ceasefire agreement and, 36

“cyber-Pearl Harbor” ordered by, 79–80

demonization of, 1–2, 5–6, 20–21, 66, 119, 129, 135, 173, 187–188, 212

alleged destabilization of the West, 112–115

DNC emails and, 75, 81, 86–87

economic relations with Europe, 113

economy under, 4–5

election (March, 2018), 167–168, 169, 172

examining “minuses” of, 3

expulsion of Russian diplomats and, 80, 106

fascism and, 182

G20 meeting, 58–59

goal for Ukraine, 33–34

media omissions on, 22

media promoting suspicions about, 90–92

meeting with Trump, 105

Minsk negotiations and, 56

national security threat from, 51–52

popularity of, 168–169

Putin-friendly narrative, 2

response to Syrian missiles shooting down Russian aircraft, 210

speech to Russian parliament (March, 2018), 163–164, 166

Stalinism and, 109

Stalin/Stalinism and, 47–48, 128, 129, 130, 170

Syria and, 38–39, 56–57, 210

Trump meeting with, 131–132

Trump-Putin Helsinki summit meeting, 186, 191, 200–201

Trump’s anti-terrorism efforts with, 100, 101

Ukrainian crisis and, 18, 83–84

US moles in office of, 205–206

Raqqa, Syria, 126

Reagan, Ronald, 27, 60, 67, 69, 88, 105, 137, 164–165, 211

Real Time with Bill Maher, 20–21

Reich, Robert, 120

Reid, Joy, 135

Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, 54

Rethinking the Soviet Experience (Cohen), xi

Right Sector, 179

Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, 53

Robinson, Eugene, 184

Rogin, Josh, 71, 72

Rolling Stone, 172

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 198

Russia. See also new Cold War; Putin, Vladimir

adoption of children from, 70, 105

American media’s distortion of, 19–23

America’s treatment of post-Soviet, 16

awareness of “living history,” 137, 160

criminalizing of, 176–179

democratization of, 3

economic sanctions against, 49, 64, 70, 106, 140, 169, 197–201, 212

elections, 63

feeling attacked by America, 136–140

“information war” against, 41–42

interference in US elections (2016), 68, 74–75, 79, 86–87. See also Russiagate

is not a threat to the U.S., 134, 136

isolation of, 190

leaving the West, 115–118, 178

lost alternatives of Gorbachev in, 110–112

opponents of détente in, 89–90

of Stalin vs. under Putin, 4

St. Petersburg subway terrorism, 95

Trump’s foreign policy views on, 39–40

US declaring war on (Meet the Press), 67–68

US-NATO military presence near, 45–46, 48, 125

US rogue-like behavior toward, 48–49

US-Russian cooperation against Syrian forces, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64

US Second Cold War with, 149–152

Victory Day in, 98, 100

worsening relations with US, October, 2016, 66–67

Russiagate, 96

allegations, 1, 8

American amnesia/denial and, 160–162

beginning of, 120

CFR report on, 150–152

dangerous consequences of, 188–189

destabilization of the West and, 112–115

firing of Comey, 99

Helsinki summit meeting and, 196

informant and, 183–186

informants, 183–186, 204–205

Intelgate and, 152–157, 183

liberals and, 120

national security and, 131–133, 134

neo-McCarthyism, 92–93

nuclear war risk and, 174–176

preventing US diplomacy with Russia, 140

US elites and, 157–160

US media on, 103–107, 120, 121, 183–184, 204, 208–209

US-Russian alliance against terrorism and, 100–102

Russian-NATO Founding Act, 122

Russophobia, 171–176, 188

Ryan, Paul, 181

Saakashvili, Mikheil, 20, 139

sanctions. See economic sanctions

Sanders, Bernie, 120

Sasse, Ben, 5

Saudi Arabia, 37

Scarborough, Joe, 177

Schiff, Adam, 92, 120

Schumer, Chuck, 181, 195

Sea of Azov, 210

Serbia, 24, 138

Shaheen, Jeanne, 117

Shakarian, Pietro, xii

Shane, Scott, 81, 136

Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 51

Shoigu, Sergei, 103

Simpson, Glenn, 154

60 Minutes, 65

Skripal, Sergei, 170–171

slavery, American, 107–108

Slavophiles, 89, 115, 116, 117

Snyder, Timothy, 55

Sochi Olympics, 19, 21

Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives (Cohen), xi, 111

Soviet system, Putin and, 8

Soviet Union. See also Russia

end of, 111–112, 116–117

link to the West, 116

Stalin’s Great Terror, 107–109

undemocratic ending of, 111–112

World War II, 99

Spain, 72

Speier, Jackie, 121

Stalin, Josef, 3, 4, 170

anti-Stalinists, 127–131

conflicts over reputation of, 46–48

pro-Stalin sentiments, 4, 46, 47, 129–130

Stalin’s Great Terror, 47, 107–109

State Museum of the History of the Gulag, 47, 109

Steele, Christopher, 81, 86, 103, 106, 120, 152–153, 154–156, 205

St. Petersburg terrorist act, 95

summit meetings, 105, 186, 191–194

Surkov, Vyacheslav, 33

Svoboda, 17

Swalwell, Eric, 121

Syria

ceasefire agreement, 35–36, 37

collapse of diplomacy in, 64–65, 66

false US narrative on, 74

mini-détente in, 40–41, 53

missiles shooting down Russian aircraft (September 2018), 209–210

Putin’s 2015 military intervention in, 7–8, 38

Trump-Putin summit meeting and, 194

Trump’s missile attack on, 96, 97, 175

US attack on, 62

US-Russia cooperation against, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64

US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 187

US shooting down military aircraft of, 102–103

Taliban, the, 138, 204

tax returns of Trump, 86

terrorism, 52, 95, 100–102, 135

Tillerson, Rex, 75, 82, 93, 95, 97, 98

Times Sunday Review, 89

Trump, Donald

anti-terrorism efforts with Russia, 100, 101

anti-Trump media, 81

Brennan affair and, 201–203

challenging bipartisan policies, 39, 41, 69

as Cold War heretic, 194–197

collusion with Russia, 92, 99. See also Russiagate

Comey, James and, 99, 100

détente and, 71, 90

détente policy, 69–71

foreign policy views, 39–40, 42–43

getting tough with Russia, 174

Kremlin-baiting of, 84–88

leaked documents and, 80–81, 86

meeting with Putin, 105, 131–132

missile attack on Syria, 96, 97, 175

as pro-détente, 54, 60

as pro-Putin, 54–55

Russiagate delegitimizing presidency of, 157–158

Russian interference in US elections and, 75

tax returns, 86

Trump-Putin Helsinki summit meeting, 186, 191, 200–201

Ukrainian war and, 84

weapons to Kiev, 144–145

Trump, Donald Jr., 105, 106

Tsygankov, Andrei P., 173

Turkey, 37, 53

Ukraine/Ukrainian crisis. See also Minsk Accords

Crimea episode (August 2016), 56

fallacy and fact on, 16–18, 17–18

false narrative on Russian aggression and, 74

Joseph Biden and, 145–146

Maidan protests, 17, 36, 114, 140, 144, 179, 212

Maidan Revolution regime, 43–44

maritime war, 210–211

media coverage, 14, 21–22

NATO and, 7, 17, 24, 123, 139

neo-Nazis in, 6

neo-Nazism and, 179–182

Obama’s diplomacy with, 139–140

outcomes, 18

Putin and, 33–34, 114–115

Putin’s “aggression” in, 83

risk of direct conflict with, 187

secret diplomacy on, 33–34

two conflicting narratives of, 143–144

US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 7, 13

US weapons supplied to, 143, 144–145

United States. See also US media

assault on Aleppo, 68

attitude toward post-Soviet Russia, 22–23, 24–25, 28–29

declaring war on Russia (Meet the Press), 67–68

double standards of, 125–127

foreign policy. See foreign policy

need for alliance with, 52–53

new Cold War with Russia. See new Cold War

policy toward post-Soviet Russia, 137–140

Putin’s attitude toward, 8

rogue-like behavior toward Russia, 48–49

Russiagate’s revelations about elites in, 157–160

sanctions against Russia, 197–201

shooting down Syrian military aircraft, 102–103

slavery in, 107–109

threats to Russia, 88, 209

Trump’s views on foreign policy of, 39–40

US-Russian cooperation against Syrian forces, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64

World War II, 98–99

worsening relations with Russia, October, 2016, 66–67

UN Security Council, 118, 125–126, 139, 178

US Department of Defense (DOD), 64, 103

US Intelligence Community Assessment, 82

US media

absence of glasnost and debate in, 110, 111, 112

author’s criticism of, xi-xii

civic courage and, 95

contributing to the new Cold War, 189

demonization of Putin and, 2, 5–6, 20–21, 135, 146

“details” missing from, 102–104

on diplomacy in Syria, 65

distortion of Russia in, 19–23

fact free narratives in, 96–97

fixated on Russiagate, 103

“information war” against Russia, 41–42

The John Batchelor Show, ix-x

limited debate on new Cold War, 13–14, 79–80

malpractice by, 146–149, 208

on militarization of new Cold War, 35

misrepresenting pro-Stalin sentiments in Russia, 46–48

on NATO, 192–193

promoting suspicion about Putin, 90–92

Putin blamed for Brexit by, 50–51

on Russiagate, 103–107, 120, 121, 183–184, 204, 208–209

Russiagate and elites, 159–160

on Russia hacking of DNC emails, 79, 81

Russian media and, 136–137

Times Manafort article, 57, 58

Trump-Putin connection, 89

on Trump-Putin summit meeting, 195

on Trump-Russia relations/“collusion”, 84–86, 93, 145

on Ukrainian crisis, 14, 21–22

US double standards and, 126–127

on “Wall of Sorrow” ceremony, 129

US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 7, 13, 24, 29, 187

vanden Heuvel, Katrina, xii-xiii, 110, 128

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, 87, 133

The Victims Return (Cohen), 46–47, 108, 128

“Wall of Sorrow” memorial, 128

Wall Street Journal, 2, 20, 56, 181

Warner, Mark, 121

Washington Post, 2, 19, 50, 56, 61, 62, 65, 66, 75, 79, 81, 88, 120, 126, 139, 147–148, 153, 158, 172, 177, 181, 184, 205, 212

Waters, Maxine, 121

West, the. See also Europe; United States

Putin’s alleged destabilization of, 112–115

Putin’s views on, 7–8

Russia leaving the, 115–118, 178

white supremacism, 6, 7, 126

WikiLeaks, 86–87

Wilson, Woodrow, 19, 197

Woodward, Bob, 208

World War II, 34, 61, 98–99, 180

Wyden, Ron, 6

Yanukovych, Viktor, 17, 22, 43, 57, 86, 114, 140, 144, 146

Yatsenyuk, Arseny, 36

Yeltsin, Boris, 2, 3, 4, 20, 57–58, 82, 112, 137, 146

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 94–95

Zinoviev, Aleksandr, 117