Thread by @caitoz

Stephen Cohen Has Died. Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War.

"Cohen has for years been correctly predicting this chilling scenario which now threatens the life of every organism on earth, even while his own life was nearing its end."
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Stephen F Cohen, the renowned American scholar on Russia and leading authority on US-Russian relations, has died of lung cancer at the age of 81.

As one of the precious few western voices of sanity on the subject of Russia while everyone else has been frantically flushing their brains down the toilet, this is a real loss.

I don’t know how long Cohen had cancer. I don’t know how long he was aware that he might not have much time left on this earth. What I do know is he spent much of his energy in his final years urgently warning the world about what he saw as an unprecedented threat of nuclear war.

The last of the many books Cohen authored was 2019’s War with Russia?, detailing how the complex multi-front nature of the new cold war escalations against Moscow combines with Russiagate and other factors to make it in some ways more dangerous than any point in the last cold war

“You know it’s easy to joke about this, except that we’re at maybe the most dangerous moment in US-Russian relations in my lifetime, and maybe ever,” Cohen told The Young Turks in 2017.

Cohen repeatedly points to the most likely cause of a future nuclear war: not one that is planned but one which erupts in tense, complex situations where “anything could happen” in the chaos and confusion, as nearly happened many times in the last cold war
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“I think this is the most dangerous moment in American-Russian relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis,” Cohen told Democracy Now in 2017. “And arguably, it’s more dangerous, because it’s more complex.
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“A recurring theme of my recently published book War with Russia? is that the new Cold War is more dangerous, more fraught with hot war, than the one we survived,” Cohen wrote last year.
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"Meanwhile, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has recently reset its Doomsday Clock to two minutes before midnight.”
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And now he is dead, and that clock is inching ever closer to midnight. The Russiagate psyop that he predicted would pressure Trump to advance dangerous cold war escalations with no opposition from the supposed opposition party has indeed done exactly that.
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And now the complex cold war escalations he kept urgently warning us about have become even more complex with the addition of nuclear-armed China to the multiple fronts the US-centralized empire has been plate-spinning its brinkmanship upon, which shows no sign of slowing down.

We should heed the dire warnings that Cohen spent his last breaths issuing. We should demand a walkback of these insane imperialist aggressions and call for détente. We should begin creating an opposition to this world-threatening flirtation with armageddon before it is too late.

Stephen Cohen is dead, and we are marching toward the death of everything. God help us all.