{"id":29513,"date":"2022-03-10T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29513"},"modified":"2022-03-10T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:22:53","slug":"matt-taibbi-on-putin-the-apostate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/03\/10\/matt-taibbi-on-putin-the-apostate\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi on Putin the Apostate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Analysis <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalysis.news\/matt-taibbi-on-putin-the-apostate\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Taibbi on Putin the Apostate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd as I said Matt\u2019s done a great piece about the rise of Putin, and here he is. Now joining us is Matt Taibbi. He\u2019s an award-winning investigative reporter, was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and writes a top written column on Substack. Thanks very much for joining me, Matt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/txzgveL_9bc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Of course I don&#8217;t agree with everything that has been said here, but it is food for a lot of thought.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea of Matt Taibbi&#8217;s history with and in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>I think part of the explanation of Putin&#8217;s adventure in the Ukraine is understood by referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergs-law-of-idle-threats\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenberg&#8217;s Law of Idle Threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNever make a threat you don\u2019t intend to carry out. If you have any doubts about your ability to carry out the threat, do not make it.<\/p>\n<p>Corollary:<\/p>\n<p>If you never test the opposition about whether they make idle threats, then you enable them to ignore this law.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Analysis has the video Matt Taibbi on Putin the Apostate. And as I said Matt\u2019s done a great piece about the rise of Putin, and here he is. Now joining us is Matt Taibbi. He\u2019s an award-winning investigative reporter, was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and writes a top written column on [&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-29513","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\/29513","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=29513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29518,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513\/revisions\/29518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}