Russia : More Reason & Less Frenzy (w/guest Katrina vanden Heuvel)

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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the end of Rex Tillerson and what is going on with Russia.

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1. Wife of 'Putin's American Apologist' interviewed by former Russia Today associate. HMMM.

even among fellow scholars, things have changed since Cohen emerged as the foremost public intellectual pushing back against accusations that Russia helped elect Trump. He has appeared on shows like Tucker Carlson’s on Fox News and called Trump "politically courageous" and "demonized" for trying to establish good relations with the Russians. "He’s gone from being a terrific Soviet historian to a commentator, to [talking] more about U.S. policy debates and what he sees as the corruption of those debates. But that isn’t his academic field; his contributions aren’t scholarly," says Stephen Sestanovich, a Russia expert at Columbia.

"I would say he’s not in the mainstream," says Huskey. "He’s clearly an outlier" in absolving Russia for its military excursions and electoral interference. "Many have the perception that his comments make him out to be an apologist for Russia."

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is-This-Professor-Putin-s/241777

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2. Tom Hartman can lick my taint

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