{"id":25063,"date":"2018-01-24T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25063"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:31:34","slug":"rethinking-putin-a-talk-by-professor-stephen-f-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/01\/24\/rethinking-putin-a-talk-by-professor-stephen-f-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Putin: A Talk by Professor Stephen F. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Nation<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/rethinking-putin-a-talk-by-professor-stephen-f-cohen\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rethinking Putin: A Talk by Professor Stephen F. Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wOH_VF9hWnA?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I found this to be an amazingly well balanced assessment of Putin and Russia.  I was not at all surprised by what he said because I have been able to develop a well balanced idea of Putin by reading and listening to sources outside the USA corporate press.  By watching videos and reading translations I have personally heard some of the things that Professor Cohen said that Putin has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation has the video Rethinking Putin: A Talk by Professor Stephen F. Cohen. I found this to be an amazingly well balanced assessment of Putin and Russia. I was not at all surprised by what he said because I have been able to develop a well balanced idea of Putin by reading and listening [&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-25063","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\/25063","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=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}