War with Russia

Many are substantially uninformed, based on highly selective or unverified sources, and motivated by political grievances, including those of several Yeltsin-era oligarchs and their agents in the West.

In America and elsewhere in the West, however, only purported “minuses” reckon in the extreme vilifying, or anti-cult, of Putin

But the Putin-friendly narrative soon gave away to unrelenting Putin-bashing.

Vilifying Russia’s leader has become a canon in the orthodox US narrative of the new Cold War.

Mainstream media outlets have played a major prosecutorial role in the demonization

His world is a brutish, cynical place…. We must prevent the darkness of Mr. Putin’s world from befalling more of humanity.”5

a theme that runs through this book.