{"id":30147,"date":"2024-02-27T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=30147"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:11:37","slug":"why-did-russia-really-invade-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2024\/02\/27\/why-did-russia-really-invade-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Russia REALLY Invade Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New Dawn Magazine<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newdawnmagazine.com\/articles\/why-did-russia-really-invade-ukraine\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Did Russia REALLY Invade Ukraine?<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe following article by Patrick Henningsen \u2013 written only months after Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 \u2013 explains the background dynamics of this war. The facts outlined here \u2013 that were suppressed in the West but well known to informed observers \u2013 are only now emerging in mainstream media as Western backers of Ukraine begin to face reality.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wanted to preserve a link to this article.  This is the real history as I remember it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the article that summarizes the point of the history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAfter eight long years of bloodshed and failed peace negotiations, the Russian president took to the airwaves to announce Moscow\u2019s formal recognition of the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. For a legal perspective, this immediately qualified them for official Russian military protection, including the establishment of humanitarian corridors which were quickly opened. After more than seven years of stalled diplomacy, Moscow finally chose to abandon the already dead Minsk agreement and directly deal with the situation in Donbass \u2013 and the threat posed by a US-controlled and NATO-occupied Ukraine to its national homeland security.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Dawn Magazine has the article Why Did Russia REALLY Invade Ukraine? The following article by Patrick Henningsen \u2013 written only months after Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 \u2013 explains the background dynamics of this war. The facts outlined here \u2013 that were suppressed in the West but [&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-30147","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\/30147","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=30147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30152,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions\/30152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}