Leon Aron, the director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, knows full well what the Soviet Union was capable of during the Cold War, having lived there when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. According to Aron, the level of anti-American propaganda emanating from Vladamir Putin's Russia is far worse than anything he heard then.
Appearing with me and guest host Steve Moore WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall" in Washington, D.C., Aron said the vulgarity coming from official Russian outlets includes Putin himself using a slang word for rape to describe the United States policies toward the world community:
I also never heard something like what Putin said in his speech to the Russian elite on March 18. He used a term for, essentially a rape, forced sexual intercourse, a slang to describe US policy vis a vis the world community. I never heard anything like this.
Aron said the most effective U.S. policy at this time would be robust and serious economic sanctions against Russia as opposed to the "meaningless sanctions" that the Obama Administration has introduced. When asked if the Germans, French, and the rest of the EU would go along with such sanctions given their dependance on Russia for energy, Aron said, "They don't want a part of (strict sanctions) because they don't trust the United States to stay with it and lead."
Listen to the entire interview here: