Who is responsible for the new US-Russian Cold War? Stephen Cohen

The three leaders who declared that the Cold War had ended in 1989­­­–1990—Presidents Gorbachev, Reagan, and George H W Bush—publicly agreed it had been terminated through negotiations and “without any losers.”
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Who is responsible for the new 🇺🇸-🇷🇺 Cold War?

NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance, is encamped on🇷🇺’s borders; and the🇷🇺policy elite’s abiding belief, expressed not only by Putin, that Washington has repeatedly broken its promises to, even “deceived,” Moscow
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Who is resp. for the new 🇺🇸-🇷🇺 Cold War?

🇺🇸“advisers” encamped across the country to similarly “meddle” in that nation’s politics—drafting laws and textbooks, abetting politicians and parties favored by 🇺🇸, and directly participating in the rigging of Yeltsin’s 1996 reel.
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Who is responsible for the new US-Russian Cold War? Stephen Cohen

Russian President Putin gave more support to the US war against the Taliban in Afghanistan than did any other country, including NATO members.
Putin sought the real strategic partnership with Washington
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