Baiting the Bear
Russia and NATO
Hallinan, Conn
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/04/baiting-the-bear-russia-and-nato/
Date Written: 2016-05-04
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX19405
"Aggressive," "revanchist," "swaggering": These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words "Russia," or "Vladimir Putin." It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is, why?