The American Who Dared Make Putin’s Case
http://www.newsweek.com/american-who-dared-make-putins-case-231388

Упомянуты полдюжины видных представителей американского истеблишмента, которые считают, что Путин прав и его щемить не надо.

БОльшая часть материала, однако, посвящена некому Stephen Cohen, a professor emeritus at Princeton and NYU, который на днях написал статью “Distorting Russia”. Её содержанние излагает Newsweek.

Вот несколько характерных цитат:

- Putin was the best potential partner we had anywhere in the world to pursue our national security. To quote a line I wrote many years ago, “American national security still runs through Moscow.”

- The discouraging thing is we were beginning to see that in Syria in August, when Putin literally saved Obama’s presidency. When Obama was trapped and he didn’t want to attack, he couldn’t get the support of his own party, he couldn’t get Congress. Putin delivered Assad and the chemical weapons.

- Russia facilitates the supply of about 60 percent of the material going to NATO and American forces fighting in Afghanistan.

И теперь на другую чашу весов положим Украину. И сравним.