{"id":24019,"date":"2017-02-28T23:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24019"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:43:31","slug":"the-new-yorkers-big-cover-story-reveals-five-uncomfortable-truths-about-u-s-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/28\/the-new-yorkers-big-cover-story-reveals-five-uncomfortable-truths-about-u-s-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Yorker\u2019s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Intercept<\/em> has Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/28\/the-new-yorkers-big-cover-story-reveals-five-uncomfortable-truths-about-u-s-and-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker\u2019s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To stay within the bounds of fair use, I am only  going to give you two paragraphs from the article.  You really need to read the rest of it, by clicking on the link and giving the web site the traffic it deserves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nConstantly ratcheting up aggressive rhetoric and tension between Washington and Moscow is not a game. And yet it\u2019s one that establishment Democrats \u2013 and their new allies in the war-loving wing of the GOP \u2013 are playing with reckless abandon, and with little to no apparent concern about the risks. They have re-created a climate in the U.S. where a desire for better relations with Russia triggers suspicions about one\u2019s loyalties.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nThere are, as usual, numerous highly influential factions in Washington that would stand to benefit enormously from the resurrection of the Cold War. They\u2019re the same groups that benefitted so much the first time around: weapons manufacturers, the think tanks they fund, the public\/private axis of the Pentagon and intelligence community, etc. And the people who exert the greatest influence over U.S. discourse continue to be the spokespeople for those very interests. When all of that is combined with the Democratic Party\u2019s massive self-interest in inflating the Russia threat \u2013 it gives them a way to explain away their crushing 2016 defeat \u2013 it is completely unsurprising that the orthodoxy on Russia has become hawkish and pro-confrontation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the American voter it really comes down to a question of whether or not we want to take the chance of having a nuclear war.  Iran is not the threat.  We are the threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept has Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s article The New Yorker\u2019s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia. To stay within the bounds of fair use, I am only going to give you two paragraphs from the article. You really need to read the rest of it, by clicking on the link and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24020,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019\/revisions\/24020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}