{"id":34722,"date":"2020-01-29T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34722"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:24:56","slug":"adam-schiffs-russia-bashing-is-unhinged-and-dangerous-aaron-mat-interviews-prof-stephen-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/29\/adam-schiffs-russia-bashing-is-unhinged-and-dangerous-aaron-mat-interviews-prof-stephen-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schiff&#8217;s Russia-Bashing Is Unhinged and Dangerous: Aaron Mat&eacute; Interviews Prof. Stephen Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, chief Democratic prosecutor Adam Schiff has claimed that the US is arming Ukraine &#8220;so that we can fight Russia over there so we don\u2019t have to fight Russia here&#8221; and called Russia a &#8220;wounded, dangerous animal.&#8221; Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, says that Schiff&#8217;s rhetoric is &#8220;ignorant and debased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Th3PuyqYqQU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support Pushback at Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate<\/a><br \/>\nPushback on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pushbackshow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/pushbackshow<\/a><br \/>\nAaron Mat\u00e9 on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find more reporting at <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\">https:\/\/thegrayzone.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, chief Democratic prosecutor Adam Schiff has claimed that the US is arming Ukraine &#8220;so that we can fight Russia over there so we don\u2019t have to fight Russia here&#8221; and called Russia a &#8220;wounded, dangerous animal.&#8221; Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34724,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722\/revisions\/34724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34722"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}