{"id":25177,"date":"2018-02-12T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25177"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:42:48","slug":"why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/02\/12\/why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Counterpunch<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/09\/why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A great article bringing together many factors with links to supporting articles. It is hard to pick just one example to quote. Here are two disparate quotes to just give you a hint of what is in here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn 2013 the Obama administration \u2018brokered\u2019 (Mr. Obama\u2019s term) a coup in the former Soviet state of Ukraine that ousted the democratically elected President to install persons favorable to the interests of Western oligarchs. At the time Hillary Clinton had just vacated her post as Mr. Obama\u2019s Secretary of State to prepare for her 2016 run for president, but her lieutenants, including Victoria Nuland, were active in coordinating the coup and deciding who the new \u2018leadership\u2019 of Ukraine would be.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this one more directly addressing the title of the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMore than a year later, no credible evidence has been put forward to establish that any votes were changed due to \u2018external\u2019 meddling.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With regard to Victoria Nuland and where she came from politically, here are some excerpts from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Nuland\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article<\/a>.  She served in both Democratic and Republican administrations &#8211; Clinton, Bush, and Obama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDuring the Bill Clinton administration, Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.<\/p>\n<p>She served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.S. ambassador to NATO.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counterpunch has the article Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse. A great article bringing together many factors with links to supporting articles. It is hard to pick just one example to quote. Here are two disparate quotes to just give you a hint of what is in here. In 2013 the Obama administration \u2018brokered\u2019 [&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-25177","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\/25177","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=25177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25179,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25177\/revisions\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}