Russia-Ukraine debate sparks fiery exchange (2014)

CNN's Christiane Amanpour and New York University Professor Stephen Cohen's discussion on Ukraine and Russia in 2014, including the Kremlin's position on alleged fascism in Western Ukraine.
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[@afi2005]

Whenever someone start speaking truth and give some prospective about the situation, CNN runs out of time. May be it’s by design

[@baxakk7374]

Maybe? You still have doubt? lol

[@goldenautumn8416]

It's so weird that whenever some lunatic murderer commits massacres and genocide, there are always you fringy crackpots out there trying to get "perspective" to rationalize the atrocities. You're probably sitting around collecting ted bundy memorabilia, and writing love letters to nicholas cruz and adam lanza.

[@venkataperumalrangaswamy8227]

It is !

[@leandewxw]

whatever you say, nazi

[@joeperkowski]

Ah shut up move to Russia

[@a13xdunlop]

Thought she was supposed to be interviewing guests rather than lecturing them

[@The3Pragmatic]

They let talk her for 2 mins and Cohen was left with less than 1 min...

[@Mdebacle]

Sometimes less is more. Amanpour's points were lost in the noise. Cohen was concise.

[@mvelsantos]

Professor Cohen...warned us about today!!

[@shaughnfourie304]

I AGREE WITH YOU

[@whatsgood8426]

Professor Cohen is 100% correct, well said sir.

[@Johnnycdrums]

He's my go to guy on Russia.

[@timbuktu93]

Thanks for elaborating on why he's correct.

[@Mr99Burns]

He’s a Putin mouthpiece. Biased to the core. He thinks western Ukraine is fascist lol. They are the most Ukrainian part of Ukraine btw because they were occupied by Russia only for 40 years same as the 3 Baltic states. If all of Ukraine was under Russia for only 40 years Ukraine would have joined NATO with the Baltic states back in the 90s

[@galanis38]

@@Mr99Burns Professor Cohen has been one of the most authoritative and knowledgeable scholars on this subject in America -- and from well before the advent of Putin. His estimation of the Ukraine situation is based on this long amassed knowledge. Consequently he cannot be called a Putin mouthpiece. Furthermore he did not say western Ukraine is fascist. He said that extreme nationalist and neofascist elements played a significant role and were openly supported by the US and some of its NATO allies, both in overthrowing the Yanukovich government and in the composition of the next government.

[@lordhighexecutioner]

Mrs James Rubin is naturally completely wrong... aka Amanpour. Rubin was Madeleine Albright's deputy and spokesman!

[@Bassa1952]

They cut him off when it’s not what they want

[@rk2827]

RIP Professor Cohen, Righteous one.

[@searwr7835]

Righteous if he is gone.

[@PaulKounine]

Why is CNN always running out of time just as a point is about to be made. After 30 plus years of being on the air, I would think that the network would know how to properly schedule time for their more complex debates. Give them more than five minutes to have a discussion.

[@bohandk]

Paul Kounine Thats a very good point indeed. They raise a lot of very good questions but never get to the point. Just name calling and disagreeing. Guess that is how they control the sheep :)

[@NightMitra]

Paul Kounine Also Cohen had far less time than Amanpour to talk, and the way she talked to the host at the end of the clip is ridiculous! Loved Cohen's reaction :)

[@44bett]

Well said.

[@thaliaf9795]

Bravo Paul!!

[@JohnJones-lb6xo]

They spent like 2 minutes arguing about whether the russian ambassador says said something or not.

[@orwellhuxley6301]

The closest I’ve seen CNN to a substantial discussion of the facts and they conveniently run out time. You got to love MSM. Cohen’s exposure of the non-MSM attractive rhetoric is painful to Amanpour. Lol

[@rickydee5863]

You get a like just for your the name you chose .good comment too.

[@mdmac5139]

exactly .... " we are up against the clock " 😂 😂

[@republica843]

If the best that intellectuals can do is blame the west, western Ukraine for this mess is so pathetic. Does Ukraine not have a right to self determination? as it sees fit. Is it a crime that Ukrainians exercised their assembly and protest of the pro-Russian government? Yes blame the West, and western Ukraine for everything, as Vlad the thug smiles uncontrollably. Intellectuals versus reality, I know where I'm putting my money on. Definitely not on the latte crowd.

[@RobertJackson437]

The CNN reporter Amanpour is absolutely biased and hilarious 😂😂😂

[@TakCWAL]

This was the woman who denounced the Iraq War and gave Afghanistan some of the worst press in history. Yet she wanted US to be militarily involved in Syria and now Ukraine? Cmon Amanpour, I had respect for you, but its quite obvious who you are working for now.

[@maximusnalevaichenko1556]

In America, at least someone is telling the truth? Amazing!

[@1antoniov1]

Well this is not Russia. Therefore is not so amazing…

[@javajava8856]

How's the weather in Moscow, Boris?

[@maxheadrom3088]

Lot's of people give correct information in the US - they show up less and less on TV. Professor Cohen passed away some years ago, btw.

[@andrewparker3630]

Professor Cohen is completely right. Check the facts. Do some journalism for a change.

[@moerahman6749]

Stephen Cohen, an intellectual Vs. Amanpour, an entertainer.

[@carefulconsumer8682]

Amanpoor is a self-righteous lightweight.

[@ttrons2]

IT's CNN what did you expect

[@HoChiMinh30abril1975]

I find it hard to believe that CNN would allow a 2 sided argument like this.

[@dusq123]

Lol. Amanpour is a stupid journalist.

[@randolph1917]

Russians in the Ukraine are seen a majority of the ethnic Ukrainian population as brothers. The sentiment was against Putin's overbaring control of the country, and now Putin is fanning the fires of Russian nationalists in the Ukraine to foment instability in order to punish Ukraine's population for ousting his puppet. He is invading the Ukraine under the exact same claims that Hitler invaded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, to 'protect' ethnic Germans from a non-existent threat fanned by propaganda and far right wing nationalism.

[@corriebrink8171]

The professor is correct.

[@dusq123]

Rudolf Nemeth Crimea is Russian, only given to Ukraine withing the Soviet Union. Now they are two countries. So Russian people end up in a foreign country. They tolerated up to now. But it was a matter of time. Now Ukraine has a coup government who started marginalize there rights. So things went out of control.

[@randolph1917]

dusq123 Bullshit, in the 90's Russia signed a pact with the Ukraine agreeing to respect the Ukraine's territorial integrity and to leave the Crimea to them. By invading the country and using Hitler Era smear and propaganda tactics to invade Crimea, he is breaking international law. This Russian imperialism at it's finest.

[@canertas3800]

👏👏👏 Professor Cohen! You explained all in just 30 seconds!

[@Crouchy232323]

Where's the full debate? I want to hear Ms Amanpour making a fool of herself and her position in full.

[@Crouchy232323]

esker The fuck are you on? Re-read my comment. Consult your brain. Take a deep breath then if you wish, reply. I hope you do so I can see just how many more unfounded opinions and contradictions you can squeeze into a KZbin comment. Just for the shits n giggles.

[@Crouchy232323]

Cheers :-) You're a funny guy.

[@johnkarls2132]

@@Crouchy232323 She really is a bloated and bloviated fool who thinks she queen of the press!!!

[@nebulous6660]

Cohen is living proof that grown ups still exist.

[@kainsuffer2498]

it is very good that America has at least one normal person. thanks to this man. greetings from southern Ukraine. if you want to help the civilian population, help with food and not with weapons

[@javajava8856]

OK, Boris.

[@TonyTouch23]

@@javajava8856 Victoria that u 😅

[@sabinereynaudsf]

There is a lot of humanitarian aid distributed. Russia shows that they are providing for people in the Donbas and Mariupol.

[@g00nther]

It's such a pity he passed away. A true scholar.

[@crackerjack2303]

Pick up an ak and go die for Putin or shut up honestly. Wanna be communists lmao

[@blackturtleshow]

Amanpour talks as if she's certain of things which she couldn't possibly be certain about. She speaks of facts which don't exist. The professor seems to actually know what he's talking about. Amanpour is so unreasonable and is so emotional about her point of view that even Blitzer has to attempt to calm her down. It would be nice to have more rational analysis instead of all the anti-Russian propaganda we're being fed by CNN.

[@ilike007]

good post

[@seanpan5231]

The problem is the professor seemed to be the only one. It's diplomacy,but the Neo-cons seemed to believe it can be won by manipulating American public opinion.

[@34roberees]

Both talk as if they knew the facts first hand, although Amanpour just asks the professor to be cautious when generalizing. She never told him it's not true, she said do not generalize.

[@chongbenglim2478]

spot-on! A biased and insensible can be dangerous! The two guys had to generously give in to her "order" or "insistence"....

[@pedagosk]

Ananoour us a paid propagandist for the Gangster State

[@muhammadkazimi8854]

Stephen Cohen is right and as a Pakistani I find this difficult to admit

[@nrodaf06]

I love it when professor Cohen crosses his arms at 2:45 and just sits back because he knows Amanpour is totally missing the point.

[@workhorse7134]

She's missing it on purpose. She's not there to try and tell the truth she's there to push deep state narratives.

[@b.ballooon9225]

No, he's being manipulative and only looking at it from one perspective. Their nation is very much a democracy and the past 8 years have proven that. A few separatists in Donbass supported by radical Russian nationalists doesn't change that, and you wouldn't expect them to have seats in their parliament with a Russian separatist group fighting them. The main reason Russia didn't go in full blown with Donbass was because they didn't want to give Ukraine the excuse to join NATO, which is why when Russia invaded 3 weeks ago they went for all of Ukraine, as they knew just taking the Donbass would result in Ukraine joining NATO, so they wanted to install a puppet regime to prevent that. This guy is being manipulative by implying Ukraine is not democratic. IT is. Maybe not perfect, but it improved over the years and even back in 2014 was a democracy trying to break free from Russian Imperialism, centuries of Russian Imperialism. Russia is the non-democratic one, acting like conquerors. This guy is being extremely manipulative by focusing on Ukraine's much smaller mistakes and not recognizing the context of the situation, and making it seem like it was more than the Donbass. This guy and Putin both use Donbass as their justification for the rest of Russia's aggression towards Ukraine, attempts at control over Ukraine, real attempts to install puppets. The Ukrainian people are now fighting for their freedoms, I hope everyone can clearly see that sympathizing with Putin's agenda is ridiuclous. I hope everyone can see that it was RUssia that was spreading radical nationalist ideas. They're the ones talking about reviving their Soviet Empire, they haven't even tried to hide it, not for a while now. Blatant conquerors. I hope there's no question now as to who started Donbass, as to why Ukraine has been justified in their attempts to defend themselves over the years, and how they are the victim of a brutal Imperialist dictator.

[@johnjordan6032]

And that point is Ukraine has some far right fascists which gives the right for Russia to invade their country to impose their far right fascism. Kewl story broooo..,

[@charlesciminera5881]

Wtf has all this have to do with Putin invading a sovereign nation?

[@zarni000]

Lol he is missing popcorn only

[@whatsgood8426]

We have to be careful.. we have to be careful as a network.... haha she has to be careful about the world not finding out the truth

[@lordlee6473]

America seems to be unable to carry on without finding a villain, when all along that villain is himself

[@johnurquhart4614]

Really miss Prof Cohen, a voice of reason and sanity.

[@user-vu1tq8lf6g]

in Kiev the extremists and the Nazis it's true

[@acac4236]

I have watched a number of Amanpor's shows. She is extremely bias and an insult to true honour journalism. This is obvious from her body language when she is interviewing people who hold views counter to the US government narrative, eg a sinister smirk on her face or rolling her eye balls. These are instinctive behaviour that reveals one's true self, that any defense to the contrary would be laughable. If she denies these behaviours, just ask her to check out her own previously recorded shows!

[@KA-pq3yz]

She is/was not a journalist at all. She is an agent

[@LoC28C]

She used to be a great journalist whom I really respected but not anymore.

[@viriathus2802]

I can't believe Professor Stephen Cohen was allowed on CNN.

[@alansjf33]

Finally , one program attempted to have someone on a program telling the truth. Good to see the Professor on this network .

[@kemitafrq6890]

That was in 2014.

[@alansjf33]

@@kemitafrq6890 Good point. They would never air this today.

[@freeman4899]

Dr Cohen pasted away in 2019

[@alansjf33]

@@freeman4899 damn shame. He is one of two academics who had this Russia vs Ukrainian situation figured out years in advanced.

[@Smudgeroon74]

John Mearseimer is the other expert professor.

[@JacksGamesful]

WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO TELL THE POPULATION THE TRUTH

[@GH-oi2jf]

This is the first balanced panel I have heard on this subject. Prof. Cohen seems to be one of the few realists around today.

[@daysjours]

Alas he is no longer with us.

[@tashalorm4313]

Professor John Measheirmer is very good at telling about this story.

[@GH-oi2jf]

@@daysjours - So I learned. A shame he missed the final installment of this tragic drama.

[@azasm5884]

Now we remember US "foreign policy" over the last 30 years: Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Libya (1986), Iraq (1991), Somali (1993), Yugoslavia (1995, no UN sanction), Afghanistan and Sudan (1998, one-side military strike), Yugoslavia (1999, no UN sanction), Afghanistan (2001, no UN sanction), Iraq (2003, no UN saction), Libya (2011). These are only open, direct military interventions. Without Russia and some other countries, there would be much more, like Syria (2013) and others.

[@44bett]

America has been at war over 90% of its history.

[@terryheadley8532]

Professor Cohen was excellent he speaks nothing but the truth

[@peterbartolomeo9574]

Brilliant mind He's the most knowledgeable person alive on Russia and the West. He studied and taught in Russia for forty years. So sad he's gone now. But how poingant .....this was 8 yrs ago Russia is 1,000% justified in removing the neo Nazis in Ukraine. Don't forget Treblinka.

[@vjetar2822]

@@scottteabergs5360 don't forget gitmo. 🇷🇺Z🇷🇺

[@vjetar2822]

@@scottteabergs5360 I did not forget that those killed were "Russian collaborators" as ukrop police said when they conducted "cleansing" (their words) and called it safari. But I Will not forget gitmo or abu gharib. Nice try with your non existent "moral" high ground. 😂😂😂 🇷🇺Z🇷🇺

[@vjetar2822]

@@scottteabergs5360 den haag is not recognized by Russians. But you will be Happy when Russians set up tribunal for western mercs and war criminals. 😂😂😂😂🇷🇺Z🇷🇺

[@vjetar2822]

@@scottteabergs5360 how is he isolated? west and it's stooges are 20% of the world. 😂😂😂 What matters is that any western merc cought there is not coming back. I am Serbian btw. 😂 I considered Putin's turd a better Man than any of your dear leaders in last 300 years. But it's ok I know that you are so brainwashed to think that everyone who disagrees with murika is Russian. 😂😂😂 Very proud of my Slavic kin (Russians) they stood their ground against vermin of the west. 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺Z🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@khalidmatt995]

Amanpour has lost any semblance of objectivity a reporter should have.

[@firuzaabdullaeva2706]

Unfortunately there is no more journalism, just propaganda

[@firuzaabdullaeva2706]

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[@lesterarbusto3535]

"We have to be very careful...." Not to tell the truth to our viewers.

[@seanpatrick7188]

Wolf had to stop it immediately the second the professor said the US was responsible. We can't have references like that slip out....no, no, no

[@josephantony2834]

Up against the clock,if he talks against the US and NATO.

[@LawrenceCarroll1234]

When you consider the history of the United States and it’s often sordid intentions - along with the sordid intentions of the nations it has battled - then the question becomes “Why trust any of these players?” I like Prof. Cohen’s attitude. The US and it’s allies should stop pretending to be certain of ANYTHING that is outside it’s borders - and thus should stop interfering in foreign affairs.

[@liul]

When you consider the history of Russia then you shouldn't trust it. You think russian intentions are pure? I have a Latvian friend who has been telling me for years how scared she is of Russia, because of their past and because of Putin rethorics . If you don't trust the US, trust the eastern European countries. Listen to Putin talking about Ukraine this last decades, you'll understand better the imperial mentality of Russian leaders

[@LawrenceCarroll1234]

@@liul , why apply the anti-imperialist rule/ethic exclusively to Russia?

[@republica843]

Lawrence, let the US and the west not mingle in Ukraine, and let Russia just move right in and do what it's doing to Ukraine in this war. Russia - Ukraine is all mine. There, problem solved.

[@LawrenceCarroll1234]

@@republica843 , choosing ANY of these players is - from an ethical point - I believe is unwise. You might as well trust a Ted Bundy instead of a John Wayne Gacy, or choose Charlie Manson over a murderous policeman. You can do so, sure, or even choose the reverse scenario (the murderous policeman over Manson), and for you or your favorites it might - from a limited and self-centered perspective - turn out favorable in the short term. But in the end all evil is the same. And the consequences are written everyday in our world. That is why we have always had another war right after the previous one, and always will as long as this lesson isn’t learned.

[@republica843]

@@LawrenceCarroll1234 hi Lawrence I completely agree. We've all heard the phrase sometimes we have to chose the better of two evils. After the breakup of thee Soviet Union, I used to wonder how is Russia going to react to that beautiful gem, the Ukraine? Intellectuals can speak, but no one really knows what Putin truly thinks. Sad how much destruction and civilian loses. Here, Iraq and anywhere else.

[@bmk8018]

As if CNN gives a hoot about being nuanced when something doesn't suit their agenda

[@lidu308]

agree with the most points made by the NYU professor.

[@aldofromsf]

Of course, you are a Chi-Com.

[@mbdulka]

Did Cohen get arrested after this interview? Because that was a beating in public ...

[@parahiamin6765]

One is a huge cupid stunt and the other is a heavyweight intellectual!

[@romanroman1975]

Well done Mr.Cohen!

[@johnpugh3348]

Amanpour totally misses the facts of proff, cohen and i think she likes the sound of her voice to much, Be good if someone tells her to be quiet just once in a while

[@bigmoose143]

Amanpour is a classic example of what is wrong with media. She chooses to present only what is convenient

[@moeketsithakadi3574]

Absolutely... We should have seen this coming

[@chegadesuade]

I wish far more of the public were aware of Stephen Cohen, his perspective on Russian relations have been refreshingly academic and unbiased for so many years in this country.

[@CaminoAir]

I'm going to be very blunt with you. Cohen's body language and expressions would immediately call into question his integrity. If his position is correct, then why on Earth would he be responding the way he is? People who speak with conviction have aligned body language and voice characteristics. They have focus. They are calm. The speak with a quiet methodical pattern. I see the exact opposite with this man. If his opponent in this debate is either incorrect, or being deliberately dishonest in some way, then Cohen's reactions are entirely wrong. In fact, can you think of certain public figures and media 'personalities' who display similar conduct? I certainly can.

[@gordrilla]

Ya well try hearing what Scott Ritter has to say. You just might actually learn what is really going on. Zelensky was an impotent leader and the Azov Regiment knew this.

[@obijuan3004]

Nothing that Professor Cohen said was a reason for Russia to invade any nation. It doesn't matter if there are fascists or anti-Semites in a country, that is not a reason to attack a sovereign nation, a nation that has NO ABILITY TO ATTACK Russia. Russia, a nation where most Jews suffer from Russian antisemitism, was under no threat from Ukraine. Putin is now killing women and children. QUESTION: Would you rather be called a worthless Jew or watch your children get bombed? Putin like any other dictator is using false information to take over Ukraine which has Russia's main oil pipeline into Europe. Putin doesn't want all of Ukraine just the part with the pipeline. When the Saudi's made a deal to run an oil pipeline through Syria and Turkey, on to Europe, Russia bombed Syria back to the stone age. This is all Russian nonsense and Amanpour was right to call it out.

[@blkhistorydecoded]

Just caught on to him. The propaganda of the west is such an abomination.

[@blkhistorydecoded]

@@CaminoAir His body language told me that he was uncomfortable with what that women was saying. Experts besides Cohen have talked about the problems with Ukrainian fascists for years but she can't figure that out? What kind of journalist is she?

[@denisloukeris2523]

I thought armapour was a a progressive thinker but her true colours have been displayed in this crisis

[@thehouseofcm]

R.I.P. Mr. Cohen

[@victoriataitague2861]

Cohen correct

[@kmaidotia]

Great finish by the smart Professor. RIP Cohen

[@TheXxinsanexX]

I love that cohen was there with a smile

[@azasm5884]

Russian actions are more than justified.

[@republica843]

Azasm, in you dreams.

[@freemind279]

Cohen has professor title rightly so. RIP.

[@pijammer]

Why i didnt heard about this good lady in times of Iraq or Kosovo? And why the hell they always out of time, when they hear something different from major media point of view? Thats some sort of magic.

[@jaysonwilliams3938]

Good for Prof. Cohen - I do not want war words with Russia - they are NOT our enemy

[@NathanCroucher]

wow i just noticed date, 2014. i thought this was 2022.

[@szvqorwnpstahskypfwmp9821]

Professor is spot on!!

[@raymondchamberland3061]

“The United States is a desperate, desperate, crumbling empire, but at this point so dangerous, because in that desperation, it will do anything and attack anyone in order to try to maintain its control,” he stated. “The United States is absolutely a wounded, declining imperial power that cannot be trusted under any circumstances.” said Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. In this video a got a typical CNN commentator with BLITZER the ex - AIPAC employee as moderator, saying what their ZIONIST CEO and OWNERS want their PROPAGANDA TO BE.

[@Roxana-gu5zt]

This woman is completely dishonest, on all levels. So sorry to see Cohen has passed away and her voice is everything we hear. Truly regrettable, what a loss!

[@fratdawgg23]

When did Christiane start working as a U.S. State Dept. spokeshole?!

[@chongbenglim2478]

Professor Cohen is truly a modern day hero!

[@obijuan3004]

Are you a Putin employee?

[@hansdampf6916]

Lol @ the end, Amanpour really was trying too hard. Rip Prof. Cohen.

[@mahalex]

My like goes to Stephen Cohen

[@mussiesolomon4677]

She said she did a lot of reports, but everybody knows what she did in Kosovo, Iraq Syria etc.

[@mdmac5139]

well said mr. Cohen.... this is exactly what happened...

[@azasm5884]

Bravo professor!

[@hilarylazard7554]

Why does Christine Amanpour keep saying you know? How does she know we know?

[@larryhovekamp4318]

Professor Cohen: "I'm an outsider. I hate to see a civil war break out on CNN!" Well said, sir! Not only your comments about the Russia/Ukraine are so apropos, but they also sound like it could be a line lifted from Stephen Colbert.

[@9344439]

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."/ Winston Churchill /

[@44bett]

Churchill, the butcher of India.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Wolf Blitzer: “Excellent conversation...” 😂 That was a conversation?! C. Amanpour was once able to do her job ( just barely); then, about twenty years ago, she decided that she was going to start expressing her own opinions on the air...

[@jeremywilson2875]

I respect her ability to call-out propaganda when she sees it, using facts as her guide. In the last election, the "ultra-nationalists" that Cohen seems to be blaming for the war (echoing Putin propaganda) were embarrassed when they only won 4% of the vote. Amanpour was pointing out that yes they are there, but that they don't represent the vast majority of Ukrainians who want to join the EU. There are greater percentages of ultra-nationalists in most European countries AS WELL AS RUSSIA.

[@manofsan]

@@jeremywilson2875 - no, the ultra-nationalists got in cahoots with the Ukrainian military. Ukraine's army absorbed Neo-Nazi militia groups like Azov Battalion and made them the National Guard. These groups were then put in charge of combat operations against the Donbass, where they were running amok. United Nations observers stationed across that conflict zone reported that the overwhelming majority of ceasefire violations came from the Ukrainian side, mainly in the form of indiscriminate shelling of residential areas. Take a look at the photos. With Putin's invasion, now the rest of Ukraine is getting to experience what ethnic minorities in Donbass had to go through all these past 8 years.

[@jeremywilson2875]

@@manofsan I read the UN Report on Donbas, it was titled "Talks Taking Place against Backdrop of Russian Aggression, Delegate Stresses, Contrasting Kyiv’s ‘Positive’ Steps." Pretty clear where the problem lies.

[@moestietabarnak]

​@@jeremywilson28754% of the vote with the will to use force and violence... It only taken 3% for the US to boot out the English...

[@moestietabarnak]

@@jeremywilson2875 the UN ?

[@glgdpeter]

For God sake, let the prof. speak.

[@snurrespratt817]

Amanpour has no credibility at all. Wolf Blitzer at least have some. Quest is the only one I trust out of that bunch.

[@TheTheMaestro]

I'm laughing with you, Mr. Cohen.

[@DeusVeritas2]

Bravo professor Cohen!!!

[@madalinapop7700]

Woman, wait for a moment and listen to what that man has to say! He is right. From there you have to start.

[@limedickandrew6016]

Cohen is 100% spot on right with this. I know, because my family are from this part of Ukraine, though I was born and brought up in England. The Ukrainians I grew up with, the adults that is not their children, in other words, my parents generation, all hailed from Western Ukraine around Lviv. Some of course, were from Eastern Poland. But they bordered and were not far from this part of Ukraine. And it is this part that has effectively hijacked the whole of Ukraine. Parts of Ivano Frankivsk and Ternopil are similarly inclined. You only have to look at the election in April this year. Every region except Lviv voted for Zelensky. They voted for Poroshenko. Ivano Frankivsk and Ternopil voted Zelensky, but in these two regions he had his narrowest wins. The parliamentary election a few months later, it was these three who voted for the extreme right parties. Lviv of course is the centre of this 'movement', with smaller outlying support in Ivano Frankivsk and Ternopil. Me personally, I never went down the 'Hate Russia' route, though I've been subjected to it all my life. Sadly, can't say the same for my sister. She even regularly phones up the Russian Embassy in London to have a scream at them. Best thing in my view that Ukraine can do, is cut adrift this poisonous western region, Lviv and surrounding areas, and let them go their own way.

[@obijuan3004]

Nothing that Professor Cohen said was a reason for Russia to invade any nation. It doesn't matter if there are fascists or anti-Semites in a country, that is not a reason to attack a sovereign nation, a nation that has NO ABILITY TO ATTACK Russia. Russia, a nation where most Jews suffer from Russian antisemitism, was under no threat from Ukraine. Putin is now killing women and children. QUESTION: Would you rather be called a worthless Jew or watch your children get bombed? Putin like any other dictator is using false information to take over Ukraine which has Russia's main oil pipeline into Europe. Putin doesn't want all of Ukraine just the part with the pipeline. When the Saudi's made a deal to run an oil pipeline through Syria and Turkey, on to Europe, Russia bombed Syria back to the stone age. This is all Russian nonsense and Amanpour was right to call it out.

[@limedickandrew6016]

@@obijuan3004 Regarding Syria. Russia joined the war in Syria at the end of September 2015. A war had been raging there since 2012 - it had already been bombed into the stone age long before Russia started their campaign there. US had been bombing there a good 13 months before the first Russian bombs landed. If you can't even get that fact right, then how can I take anything else you say seriously.

[@obijuan3004]

@@limedickandrew6016 In 2009, Syria announced a policy called the "Four Seas Strategy," aimed to turn the country into a transit hub for gas & oil between the Gulf, the Black Sea, the Caucus and the Mediterranean ocean. This would open up oil from Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia to Europe. Putin was furious. So, Russia helped to feed the Syrian uprising with propaganda based on the Arab spring. They were pushing for a civil war, and waited until Syria had no more military left, which was supplied by Russia anyway. Then Putin bombed Syria for 5 years. Putin helped to get Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan elected. then funded Erdoğan to hire Michael Flynn, who was a Putin employee at Russia Television, (look up Photo Flynn Putin) to convince Trump to pull out of Syria. Flynn got caught, but was still able to convinced Trump to pull US troops out of Syria. Then Putin moved Russian troops into Syria permanently. No more pipeline. So, the Saudi's started ramping up production of oil to lower the price and hurt Putin's bottom line, but Putin just ramped up production to show he is not afraid of the Saudi's... oil was the lowest in history at $16.55 per barrel and, for a few minutes on April 20, 2020, oil was a negative $35 per barrel. That hurt Trumps investments in the stock market and his chances for re-election. So, April 2020 Trump made a deal for all of OPEC to slow production of oil, up to 10 million barrels per day until April 2022, which is why we are still short of oil and prices were higher before Ukraine was attacked. Still a major oil pipeline runs through Ukraine, and Ukraine can turn it off when they want so Putin is going to (at least) take enough of Ukraine so that Russia is connected to Europe without interference from Ukraine. Ukraine is about oil. NATO and Nazism is just the excuse for the attack.

[@playonesong5430]

@@obijuan3004 You don't understand what you're writing about. The Nazis (Azov and others) have been killing residents of the eastern part of Ukraine for 8 years. These groups were condemned by the UN. They called them ultranational. Many of these groups are now integrated into the regular army of Ukraine. The Donbass region separated in 2014 and became independent. There was a revolution in the country. But Ukraine did not accept this choice of people. And you're going to say that we just invaded a foreign country? Violated someone else's sovereignty? We have been negotiating for 8 years. 8 long years. They signed various agreements with Ukraine (the names "Minsk agreements"). Did you miss it? Negotiations led to nothing and people continued to die until 2022. More than 14,000 defacto killed, according to UN data more than 3,000. We are conducting a military special operation, and we are not waging war with the Ukrainian people. Our goal is demilitarization and denazification. We will not allow Ukraine to join NATO, we want the country to be neutral, so that there will be no larger war with nuclear powers in the future. NATO countries have the right to invade other countries and solve their own issues, but Russia cannot? Hypocrisy. The US has "well protected" the local population of Iraq. There are about 100,000 dead civilians there. They also "helped" the people of Afghanistan well not long ago, when the terrorists came to power. Is this America's good job? They sold the country to criminals. What a deceitful world.

[@obijuan3004]

@@playonesong5430 You are sharing Putin propaganda. The the Donbass region did not separate in 2014, Russia moved troops into that region and took it over, just as he did in Crimea. I know people who fled Crimea fearing for their lives from Russian death squads. I have Russian neighbors who fled the murderous regime of Putin. I know someone from Kazakhstan who fled Putin's attempts to control that nation as well. Poland, Romania, and Kazakhstan all joined NATO because they feared Putin would do to them what he is doing to Ukraine right now. Ukraine would be far better off as an extension of the peaceful and wealthy European union than to be a part of Putin's failing Russian economy. Putin is behind all of this to keep a direct connection to Europe for its gas and oil pipelines, the rest is BS that you think is real. Ukraine as a nation wants to be rid of Putin and Russian control, everyone in the world knows that is the truth. Lets supposed your Nazi propaganda was real, that STILL would not give Putin the right to attack and bomb women and children. NOR does it give Putin the right to shutdown the media or arrest some 14,000 protestors in Russia. Putin is a mad man, who is emulating Trump, and he has made Russia a nation that most of the world will not do business with for the next 20 years. Only with the death of Putin does Russia have a chance at being a normal free nation, with freely elected leaders and a thriving FREE economy that is not controlled by ex-KGB agents. Otherwise the people of Russia will AGAIN suffer poverty for another generation.

[@pedagosk]

Blitzer let's Ananoour blab on with US propaganda for over a minute and, a, half while he gives Cohen a mere 20 seconds...

[@mrp9498]

Amanpour trying to censor Wolf? LOL

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

What an unprofessional, semi-demented., raving ranter of an excuse for a…’ journalist ‘.

[@YAHWO1]

This man just said the truth

[@pibadar]

I agree with the professor

[@XTeCnOX]

Im with the proffesor

[@fwily2580]

Reporters interviewing reporters. Crazy.

[@lordhighexecutioner]

Amanpour married the assistant Secretary of State in the second Clinton term, James Rubin, the deputy of Madeleine Albright.

[@walter1932]

Long live Dr. Stephen Cohen.

[@cwaddle]

I hate it when someone so clearly biased is so confident even thou he shes knows ones biased

[@remremsrisri4953]

And that's why you'll never get an interview with Putin.

[@ItalianAmericanmafia]

Russia deserves the eastern Ukraine,the western Ukraine could stay a nation.i long for a united Russian people.

[@44excalibur]

A united Russian people? Don't you mean a reclaimed Soviet Union? If the Russian people of Crimea love Russia so much they should go back there. Russia has no business invading Ukraine and trying to take Crimea away from them, violating their sovereignty and international law. That would be like Mexico feeling justified trying to invade Texas, Arizona, and California. Sorry, but that won't fly. Crimea is a part of Ukraine, not Russia. What next, you're gonna support Russia invading Belarus? Poland? Lithuania? Moron.

[@44excalibur]

***** I suggest you learn YOUR history, because you've already embarrassed yourself, moron. Alaska was once a part of the Russian empire back in the 18th century as well, until Tsar Nicholas sold it to the USA. So does that mean that if Putin wants Alaska back, he has a right to invade it as well? Whether you like it or not, Crimea is legally Ukrainian territory, and Putin and Russia violated international law by invading Ukraine's sovereign territory. God, people like you are such morons.

[@44excalibur]

***** Russia has an agreement to have a base in Crimea for the Russian Black sea fleet, but those Russian troops are not currently on that base, they are marching across Crimea and firing warning shots at Ukrainian troops stationed at bases in Crimea and basically telling them to surrender and abandon their bases, so don't start with your "hysterical fear mongering" bullshit when even Secretary of State John Kerry, who is on the ground in Kiev, Ukraine now, is calling Putin out as being full of shit. There have been no snipers killing demonstrators or police, and all these reports of masked neo-Nazi soldiers storming across Kiev has been nothing but a lot of Putin-controlled Russian state media bullshit. I suggest YOU stop being such a media automation, especially when the media you're listening to is being bought and paid for by Comrade Putin himself. Oh, and in case you have been deaf, blind and dead for the last few years, Afghanistan was a direct retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. I don't recall seeing any Ukrainians flying airplanes into Moscow, so please stop with your bullshit. And it's your buddy Putin who is busy making deals with the Syrians, not the USA, or have you forgotten that Obama pretty much caved on Syria? And it was our embassy that was attacked in Egypt, not the other way around. I think you're the clueless one.

[@44excalibur]

***** The Saudis? Please, the Saudi in question was Osama Bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda network was responsible for 9/11 and was based in Afghanistan, which is why the USA invaded Afghanistan. And Iraq was in response to Saddam Hussein's violation of UN resolutions to stop his WMD program and to prevent him from selling them to Al Qaeda for potential use against the USA, and which eventually ended up being shipped to Syria for that government to use against their own people. Why did Russia invade Ukraine? For some non-existent neo-Nazi's? No, for Putin's desire to have the Black Sea fleet base totally under Russian control and to begin rebuilding the old Soviet empire. Go back to your dream world.

[@44excalibur]

*****"Not even the US government has ever claimed such an absurd thing, and you say I live in a dream world?" Yes! You obviously do live in a dreamworld, moron, for making such an asinine and easily disproven statement, in total ignorance of historical record. Were you in a coma back in February, 2003 when Colin Powell made his speech to the UN security council, outlining the case against Saddam Hussein and Iraq? "Last November 8, this council passed Resolution 1441 by a unanimous vote. The purpose of that resolution was to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. Iraq had already been found guilty of material breach of its obligations, stretching back over 16 previous resolutions and 12 years. Resolution 1441 was not dealing with an innocent party, but a regime this council has repeatedly convicted over the years. Resolution 1441 gave Iraq one last chance, one last chance to come into compliance or to face serious consequences. No council member present in voting on that day had any allusions about the nature and intent of the resolution or what serious consequences meant if Iraq did not comply." And about the threat of Saddam giving WMD's to terrorists? "Our concern is not just about these elicit weapons. It's the way that these elicit weapons can be connected to terrorists and terrorist organizations that have no compunction about using such devices against innocent people around the world. Iraq and terrorism go back decades. Baghdad trains Palestine Liberation Front members in small arms and explosives. Saddam uses the Arab Liberation Front to funnel money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in order to prolong the Intifada. And it's no secret that Saddam's own intelligence service was involved in dozens of attacks or attempted assassinations in the 1990s. But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associated in collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida lieutenants. Zarqawi, a Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan war more than a decade ago. Returning to Afghanistan in 2000, he oversaw a terrorist training camp. One of his specialities and one of the specialties of this camp is poisons. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqaqi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp. And this camp is located in northeastern Iraq. You see a picture of this camp. The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch--image a pinch of salt--less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food, would cause shock followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote, there is no cure. It is fatal. Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein's controlled Iraq. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000 this agent offered Al Qaida safe haven in the region. After we swept Al Qaida from Afghanistan, some of its members accepted this safe haven. They remain their today. Zarqawi's activities are not confined to this small corner of north east Iraq. He traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months while he recuperated to fight another day. During this stay, nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there. These Al Qaida affiliates, based in Baghdad, now coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network, and they've now been operating freely in the capital for more than eight months. Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with Al Qaida. These denials are simply not credible. Last year an Al Qaida associate bragged that the situation in Iraq was, quote, ``good,'' that Baghdad could be transited quickly. We know these affiliates are connected to Zarqawi because they remain even today in regular contact with his direct subordinates, including the poison cell plotters, and they are involved in moving more than money and materiale. Last year, two suspected Al Qaida operatives were arrested crossing from Iraq into Saudi Arabia. They were linked to associates of the Baghdad cell, and one of them received training in Afghanistan on how to use cyanide. From his terrorist network in Iraq, Zarqawi can direct his network in the Middle East and beyond." Seriously, do you live in a dreamworld? Were you in a coma in 2003, or were you just too young at that time to be paying attention to actual news because you were busy playing your Xbox or PlayStation? And you have the nerve to call me a lightweight when the only thing "lightweight" around here are you bullshit-loaded arguments which ignore historical record? Please enlighten us about what the US government's actual case to the UN for the invasion of Iraq was, moron! Perhaps Colin Powell was talking to himself that day? Seriously, get the hell off the internet and go back to your mother's basement and play more Angry Birds on your PlayStation, little boy, before you get spanked again. The internet's no place for ignorant, immature little children like you who should know better than to argue with grown-ups.

[@ItalianAmericanmafia]

And i know my history i said a united Russian people not that Russia should reclaim land that is not there's,i just believe that Russia should control the crimean peninsula, if 64% of crimeans support Russia then let Russia have it.

[@rob5197]

@el Zalvaje what about the right of people for freedom of choise, that's what Biden said - - if is right for pro west Ukrainian it's also right for pro Russia East

[@moestietabarnak]

You know, Crimean voted in a referendum to NOT be part of Ukraine, BEFORE Ukraine independence ! in January 1991 !

[@naranjo99]

RIP ~ Stephen Cohen. His voice would come in very handy right now.

[@nilslarson7532]

Prof. Cohen is greatly missed.

[@MrV8696]

She is one of those people that say "are you saying all?" When making a point, because she has none

[@joaocarlosjacinto222]

at last somebody speaking some true from to the west

[@Tangle2Brook]

Go Wolf! Live up to your name!

[@cosmos6107]

Why is the truth so hard to find. Somehow this is well known 8 years ago.

[@willmickel71]

I don't want the U.S. getting involved in a conflict in the Ukraine over whether or not they should join the EU.

[@alm7102]

I'm glad there're still true known-it-all professionals like Pro. Cohen, who dear to say about the real process of events in the East, no matter what the US officials say.

[@qkieentv1947]

That happens when you only see with one eye. Prof Cohen knows his stuff. Not everyone will tell you the truth, Most Reporters and Politicians tend to give you their version which is convenient at the moment. Talking points just to convince you of their so called reality.

[@javajava8856]

Whatever you say, Vladimir.

[@bauisadatiki2213]

Holy fuck I can't believe what Professor Stephen Cohen just said. Actual truth on CNN??? What has the world come to? Although he did got interupted as soon as he started speaking the truth

[@GaneshGunaji]

Man called it. It is perhaps a blessing to him that he is no longer with us. He would have been very upset at the current state of affairs. History will remember his words.

[@Srbenda69]

Lets remember only usa can protect their interests hahahah I LOVE RUSSIA AND VLADIMIR PUTIN

[@republica843]

Srbenda, I hope you love him even more when a Russian tank rolls over your body. Enjoy Vladi