Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia – RAI with Stephen Cohen (5/5)

1. 9:44 the key point 19:35

2. I only came across Professor Stephen Cohen 8 years ago and I had been listening ever since. He was a knowledgeable voice of reason and a gentleman. A man of intellect and integrity. I would have liked to hear his views about what is going on today in Ukraine. Unfortunately he passed away with lung cancer during the pandemic about 14 months ago. He's a real loss to our world and we will never see his likes again. R.I.P Professor Cohen and thank you for your shared knowledge 🙏 👏

3. Paul Jay is no real news. He's biased the fuck and knows nothing.

4. Stephen Cohen is a great and very charismatic guest on many levels. I remember in some of the previous, regular segments, where TRN interviewed him on current affairs, he just sounded incredibly exasperated at the stupidity of US media groupthink and the whole Russiagate narrative. But here we get to see his erudite, experienced, elderly scholar perspective, shining light on Russia and US in general. However, I will never forget, how well he put it in another segment, where he said something like "nations are on their own clock", meaning just because Russia functions now as it functions and it didn't jump out of the Soviet period as a ready-made liberal democracy, it shouldn't be dismissed as some kind of permanently "barbaric" and backward country, which always seems to be the underlying assumption of many Western liberals, especially the US pundits. It's also a deep truth abut human history, every true student of history should be aware of.

5. There are those who believe we can fight and win a nuclear war. There are those like Evangelicals who believe nuclear war is the foretold apocalypse and the second coming and they welcome it. Many of these people are in the government and the military and taking into account we have had close calls, we can have them again. Drop a coffee on the keyboard and set off a regrettable cascade. Furthermore, US aggression has only grown and grown and with past aggression probably laying the framework for more risk.
   Like my father used to say; guns are meant to go off. That goes for bombs too

6. Really good segment; asking the crucial, turning point, questions. Very interesting. In fact I never knew until now that at 1917 the peasants took the land!! and that Stalin in effect took it back in 1929. The light dawns. However, I NEVER believed the CIA did not know the Soviet Union was crumbling and we were all suprised, ha, when it did.

7. New Marshal Plan + GREEN NEW DEAL & INCLUDE Russia .

8. Wow, that must have been an inordinately hard, complex decision ! Peace or Mutually Assured Destruction . Gee, that would have taken most of us most of our lifetimes to figure out ! .

9. 75 of cold was means there is no cold war. It's a wish and desire to gave a war any war in perpetrate.

10. That's because it wasn't just the Russians that were coming… it was the Zionist Russian jews! Who is TRump most influenced by? It's the elephant in the room that you seem to be protecting…

11. Lincoln wasn't originally from Kentucky so his mind set wasn't as a Kentuckian. His parents were anti-slavery. He was raised in that mindset. Not that I think a child has to take his parent's mindset but in Lincoln's case he did.

12. I am pro-Peace

13. Great going with this interview.

14. Non aggression pacts never last forever.

15. wow great points at the end .

16. someone on here commented the cold war was a propaganda effort, to make money & to scare the people, as Noam Chomsky said .. and as Paul Jay pointed out here, Elsberg said .. just like reasons for all war are always propaganda, to make money & gain power .. it's REALLY too bad Cohen refuses to significantly agree with this, and instead said that idea is "Too simplistic" and "we need to know the facts first" … WTF?? he said he's well aware & does not dismiss the basic economic motives behind this — but still disappointed in Cohen in this interview — he still speaks as tho the propaganda narrative of cold war had some reality to it — he also said that Trump was the one who drove the american media into abandoning all it's standards (of telling factual narratives) WTF?? .. he's saying that media's ability to tell truthful narratives was only lost when Trump was elected?? give me a break. It's on video from the Church Committee hearings in the 70's that the CIA confessed to having long been in control of the fake propaganda narratives the elite want the masses to believe about the most important issues — Trump was just the one who said "the media's fake", even tho everything Trump says is false as well… the biggest thing Cohen was leaving out about "facts" was what Zbig Brezinski wrote several books on the elite players of the world stage — "The Grand Chessboard" was all about which non-NATO countries need to be overthrown/ conquered in order to control all the natural resources & populations — Zbig said Russia/China were the ultimate goals on the chessboard, and that is where we are today — the "greatest threats" — remember, Mossad literally means "make war thru deception" — Israel & Saudis are our biggest allies in this final war for power.

17. Mister Trump! Bolton out Cohen in why are we can’t have just that even once?

18. Russia!!11111 is Pizzagate with nukes

19. Prof Cohen has been at it for longer, than I am alive. Cant imagine what it feels like to see everything deteriorating each year, politicians doing oposite things etc. No wonder he is so tired of carrying the message, hope someone else will pick up the torch and cross the line into real politics soon

20. thank you .. i always learn more when i get the chance to hear from Cohen

21. I use to think Cohen was a respectable scholar. He is a full-of-shit contrarian that is pushing the now debunked embarrassing Russia-Gate conspiracy theory! He also seems to have an irrational hatred of Russians!

22. Paul and Stephen thank you sooo much for this series of interviews! This is the true journalism at its best!

23. I would urge everyone to read Antony Suttons books Wall St and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall St and the Third Reich. He was a professor at Stanford and worked with the Hoover Institute back in the 50s and 60s. He had access to massive amount of documents plust the all the evidence from Nuremberg was brought their for a while. He was a well respected its amazing how his work has been buried.

24. Yeah Journalist are not factual when they're being controlled by the Editors = by DC regimes.

25. A remarkable man indeed. I have valued his contrabution to understanding for better than half my life.

26. After World War II, the military industrial complex realized how profitable war is and manufactured imagined conflicts throughout the world to keep the revenue stream flowing. Anyone with a half a brain doesn't fall for their fear mongering.

27. As teenagers the 1950's, my crowd was attracted to the satire in MAD Magazine, which made fun of everything from cigarette advertising to the McCarthy hearings. The editors were both hip and progressive, and made a lifelong skeptic of me. We were tuned in enough to know that Cuba was a mafia cesspool, and we rooted for Castro.

28. the turning point was no the death of lenin and in US the death of roosevelt?

29. My favorite kind of discussion. Thank you.

30. I have only met one Russian in the US over my life time so I do not view the "Russians" as a threat to me. In fact he was the first person who mentioned the fact that we are not free citizens even though we "think" we are and proceeded to point out the facts of why he observed that while his first visit to the US and that was 26 years ago..

31. We live in a very complicated world with a complicated history. A several hundred word comment can't accurately critique it; just like a five part series can't accurately critique it. Researching history allows us the ability to see if there is a reoccurring design that can be critiqued. When I study history I find a reoccurring design of a Rentier class logic and a logic for everyone else. A logic that says the Rentier has a right rule and make the rules. In Feudalism that was the aristocracy. America was founded on propaganda; the American Rentier class rule over an Empire that thinks they can make the rules for the world. During Industrial Capitalism Socialism was the threat but because accumulated money Capital needed a place to go we now have Finance Capitalism. With Finance Capitalism any country that doesn't let money capital confiscate their tangible assets is a threat. Exxon is suing Cuba's Nationalized oil Company and the US has decided to install their own president in Venezuela by using the US Dollar as weapon of mass destruction. Australia's Banking system is entering into a 2008 style Financial crisis; just like in 2008 when the Banks were to big to fail; the Australian Government will not let their Banks fail. The one thing Australia doesn't have is a World reserve currency like the US had in 2008 and this could trigger a Global crisis. There will be no detente with a New York Rentier as President. The Rentier class is so in love with making money picking a fight with a country that can fight back isn't profitable. What people should be scared of is Israel. This country has an agenda and has no problem sacrificing American soldiers to achieve that agenda.

32. Great series. Thank you.

33. I am 19…. First time stumbled on this channel…..it's a gold mine……..make more of these….. This whole series was great

34. Detente is not profitable

35. Excellent! Brilliant interview subject.

36. What if Trotskyism had triumphed over Stalinism? Would their concept of 'permanent revolution' have forced a hot war?

37. What is Professor Cohen’s lapel button?

38. AS the only nuclear test the Russians ever made was the Czar bomb in 1960, rated at 1,570 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The non nuclear Proliferation Treaty by President Kennedy made sense and he was killed over that.

39. Why I'm Pro-Oxygen.

40. The United States of America is the threat to the whole world their big bullies

41. This man should be on the National Security Council

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