{"id":24671,"date":"2017-10-02T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24671"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:04:40","slug":"russia-writes-off-over-20bln-debt-of-african-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/02\/russia-writes-off-over-20bln-debt-of-african-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia writes off over $20bln debt of African countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Proto Thema<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/en.protothema.gr\/russia-writes-off-20bln-debt-to-african-countries\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia writes off over $20bln debt to African countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cWe have written off more than $20 billion of African countries\u2019 debts as part of an initiative to help out the world\u2019s poorest and most deeply indebted nations,\u201d President Vladimir Putin told reporters after meeting with his Guinean counterpart Alfa Conde on Thursday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There go those nasty Russians again. Trying to win over the hearts and minds of people by forgiving their countries&#8217; debts. Why we can&#8217;t win their hearts and minds by pushing for austerity for those people seems to remain a mystery to our politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike. If the people don&#8217;t like austerity we can offer to overthrow their elected governments for them and introduce our own dictators to help them see the light. What&#8217;s not to like about what we offer compared to Russia?<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is always this from <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/quotes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my quotes page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James Galbraith \u2013 posted here December 19, 2012 \u2013 <a title=\"Source of quote\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/12\/19\/interview-with-james-galbraith\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><br \/><strong>A debt that can\u2019t be paid won\u2019t be paid.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proto Thema has the article Russia writes off over $20bln debt to African countries. \u201cWe have written off more than $20 billion of African countries\u2019 debts as part of an initiative to help out the world\u2019s poorest and most deeply indebted nations,\u201d President Vladimir Putin told reporters after meeting with his Guinean counterpart Alfa Conde [&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-24671","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\/24671","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=24671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24675,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24671\/revisions\/24675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}