{"id":29528,"date":"2022-03-11T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29528"},"modified":"2022-03-11T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:00:20","slug":"patrick-armstrong-russia-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/03\/11\/patrick-armstrong-russia-ukraine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Armstrong: Russia Ukraine 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Armstrong post the article <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickarmstrong.ca\/2022\/03\/04\/russia-ukraine-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RUSSIA UKRAINE 2<\/a> on March 4. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo far the Russian military operation in Ukraine has been a reconnaissance in force preceded by the destruction of the supplies and headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by standoff weapons. The object being to suss out where the Ukrainian forces are, to surround them, to check existing Russian intelligence against reality and, at the same time, destroy known headquarters, air and naval assets, supplies and ammunition depots. And, perhaps, there was the hope that the speed and success (Russian\/LDPR forces dominated an area of Ukraine about the size of the United Kingdom in the first week) would force an early end (aka recognition of reality).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this article is almost a week old, some of this is a little dated.  <\/p>\n<p>Patrick Armstrong was mentioned in my previous post <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/03\/10\/an-intelligent-analysis-of-putin-wef-and-the-ukraine-nato-alliance\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An intelligent analysis of Putin, WEF and the Ukraine NATO alliance<\/a>.  I wanted to post a link to one of his article before his name disappeared from my memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Armstrong post the article RUSSIA UKRAINE 2 on March 4. So far the Russian military operation in Ukraine has been a reconnaissance in force preceded by the destruction of the supplies and headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by standoff weapons. The object being to suss out where the Ukrainian forces are, to surround [&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-29528","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\/29528","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=29528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29529,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29528\/revisions\/29529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}