{"id":24373,"date":"2017-07-18T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24373"},"modified":"2017-07-18T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:10:14","slug":"why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/07\/18\/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West\u2019s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Foreign Affairs<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/russia-fsu\/2014-08-18\/why-ukraine-crisis-west-s-fault\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West\u2019s Fault<\/a>.  The magazine won&#8217;t let me see the full article, but here is an excerpt from the part they let me read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected and pro-Russian president &#8212; which he rightly labeled a \u201ccoup\u201d &#8212; was the final straw.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see what part the USA played in the overthrow, look up <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=nuland\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Nuland<\/a> on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one link to an article you will find in the above search &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/13\/u-s-officials-caught-in-ukraine-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. officials caught in Ukraine plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs has the article Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West\u2019s Fault. The magazine won&#8217;t let me see the full article, but here is an excerpt from the part they let me read. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected and pro-Russian president &#8212; which he rightly labeled a \u201ccoup\u201d &#8212; was [&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-24373","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\/24373","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=24373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24374,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24373\/revisions\/24374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}