Stephen F. Cohen: Has US Gone Rogue by Waging Undeclared War on Russia? Stephen F. Cohen 2016-06-28 https://www.thenation.com/article/is-the-us-pursuing-a-rogue-policy-by-wagin... (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/us-pursuing-rogue-policy-waging-undecl... ) "As evidence, Cohen points to some recent examples: the emerging permanence of NATO’s “exercises” on Russia’s borders on land, sea, and in the air; the Obama administration’s refusal to separate physically its “moderate oppositionists” in Syria from anti-Assad fighters recognized as terrorist groups, despite having promised to do so; the demand by 51 State Department “diplomats” that Obama launch air strikes against Assad’s Syrian army, which is allied with Moscow, even if it might mean “military confrontation with Russia”; the questionable allegation that Russia had hacked files of the Democratic National Committee coupled with a NATO statement that hacking a member state might now be regarded as war against the entire military alliance; and the EU’s renewal of economic sanctions against Russia without any meaningful pretext. " ...