{"id":416,"date":"2008-09-17T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2008-09-17T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:02:44","slug":"ukraines-pro-western-government-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/17\/ukraines-pro-western-government-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Pro-Western Government Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Article on Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/16\/ukraines-pro-western-gove_n_126915.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story on Huffington Post. The story takes on added significance after what happened in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Relation to World War I history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/16\/ukraines-pro-western-gove_n_126915.html?show_comment_id=15788718#comment_15788718\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a comment that ties what is going on to the history of how World War I started. I am not enough of an expert in history to attest to this telling of the story. I just know enough for it to sound plausible.<\/p>\n<p>It just shows that while military alliances can be necessary, they can also be dangerous.\u00a0 If NATO doesn&#8217;t stop pressing for new members, is it going to lead us to war? Are we afraid to put the bakes on NATO for fear of being called cowardly and weak on defense?\u00a0 Will we let this fear lead us to war instead of allowing us to break the chain of tit-for-tat?<\/p>\n<p>See my posting on <a title=\"Post on tit-for-tat\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=357\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tit-for-Tat<\/strong><\/a> and my posting about <a title=\"Posting about Georgia\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=388\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Georgia<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Scary, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story on Huffington Post. The story takes on added significance after what happened in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Follow this link to a comment that ties what is going on to the history of how World War I started. I am not enough of an expert in history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-politics","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}