{"id":13711,"date":"2015-10-22T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13711"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:06:44","slug":"putin-just-warned-global-war-is-increasingly-more-likely-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13711","title":{"rendered":"Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-10-22\/putin-just-warned-global-war-increasingly-more-likely-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\">Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here&#8217;s Why<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Vladimir Putin is basking in Russia\u2019s triumphant return to the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>What began with a land grab in Crimea and escalated with support for the separatists at Donetsk, culminated in Moscow\u2019s dramatic entry into Syria\u2019s protracted civil war.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, the deplorable (not to mention comically absurd) strategy adopted by the US and its regional allies in Syria set Putin up for success. The situation was highly exploitable by anyone that\u2019s strategically minded and thanks to the convoluted set of alliances Washington has built with groups that later turned out to be extremists, Moscow gets to achieve its regional ambitions while simultaneously fighting terrorism. Meanwhile, Washington, Riyadh, Ankara, and Doha are left to look on helplessly as their Sunni extremist proxy armies are devastated by the Russian air force. The Kremlin knows there\u2019s little chance that the West and its allies will step in to directly support the rebels &#8211; the optics around that would quickly turn into a PR nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has provided the perfect backdrop for Putin to begin what\u2019s amounted to a lecture tour on how to conduct foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Soundbites have ranged from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-09-15\/putin-accuses-world-using-terrorist-groups-destabilize-governments\">very serious commentary<\/a>\u00a0on why the West should not employ extremists to bring about regime change to comical jabs at the US and its allies who the Russian President last week accused of having \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-10-13\/putin-calls-us-allies-oatmeal-heads-syria\">oatmeal brains<\/a>\u201d when it comes to Mid-East policy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today at the International Valdai Discussion Club&#8217;s 12th annual meeting in Sochi, Putin delivered a sweeping critique of military strategy and foreign policy touching on everything from the erroneous labeling of some extremists as \u201cmoderates\u201d to the futility of nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here&#8217;s Why Vladimir Putin is basking in Russia\u2019s triumphant return to the world stage. What began with a land grab in Crimea and escalated with support for the separatists at Donetsk, culminated in Moscow\u2019s dramatic entry into Syria\u2019s protracted civil war. To be sure, the deplorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4723,179,8400,919,4036,522,542,1246,694,701,10131,776,857,862,865],"class_list":["post-13711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ankara","tag-crimea","tag-doha","tag-donetsk","tag-global-war","tag-middle-east","tag-moscow","tag-riyadh","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sunni-extremism","tag-syria","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13712,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13711\/revisions\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}