Professor Stephen Cohen: "Downed Malaysian Plane Raises Risk of War Between Russia and the West"

[KoKo]

Published on Jul 18, 2014

http://www.democracynow.org - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 298 people has exploded and crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing everyone on board. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say the Boeing 777 was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile, but it is unclear who fired the missile. The plane was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lampur with passengers from at least 10 countries on board, including 173 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians and 27 Australians. As many as 100 of the world's leading AIDS researchers and advocates were reportedly on the plane en route to a conference in Australia, including the pioneering researcher and former president of the International AIDS Society, Joep Lange. Both sides in Ukraine's conflict are blaming each other for downing the plane. We speak with professor Stephen Cohen on what this incident could mean for the region. His most article for The Nation magazine is "The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev's Atrocities."

This is an excerpt from the interview. Watch the full segment on Democracy Now! here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/18...

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[CJCRANE]

1. I feel like we've been played. The neocons are back

or rather, they never went away.

They've been busy behind the scenes these last few years and now their hard work is coming to fruition.

[Billy Budd]

2. The threat of Peace is ever present

“To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.”...George Orwell

[zeemike]

4. Welcome to DU Billy Budd.

Your namesake was one of my favorite books and a great movie.

[Billy Budd]

5. Thank you

Billy Budd hung by the British Navy....

[zeemike]

3. He said what i thought of.

Who had the motive if it was not an accident?
And Russia did not have a motive.

[HoosierCowboy]

6. Start a Nuclear War over MH17?

What will start a nuclear war is trying to bring the Ukraine into NATO along with former members of Russia's western buffer states. If peace with Russia is important, quit trying to surround the Bear. When the Bear comes out of his cage, it will not be pleasant.
The Russian military could overrun the Ukraine in a week, and short of a western first nuclear strike, there is little we could do about it.

Take a vote, your children burning to death in a nuclear war, or leave the Bear alone. I don't see this dipwad being the first one out of the helicopter, or anybody else stepping up for it either.