{"id":15001,"date":"2015-12-02T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2015-12-02T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:21:00","slug":"russia-threatens-retaliatory-action-after-nato-expands-alliance-for-first-time-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15001","title":{"rendered":"Russia Threatens “Retaliatory Action” After NATO Expands Alliance For First Time In Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia Threatens “Retaliatory Action” After NATO Expands Alliance For First Time In Six Years<\/a><\/h3>\n
As the war in Syria enters its fifth year with no end in site, it\u2019s easy to forget about the world\u2019s \u201cother\u201d proxy conflict, that which is still unfolding in Ukraine.<\/div>\n
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You might remember Ukraine as yet another example of US intervention gone horribly awry. Indeed, this was but another instance of Washington stepping in to support \u201cdemocratic\u201d protests on the way to bringing about regime change. Just three months after a dramatic visit to Maidan Square by the Senate\u2019s favorite warhawk John McCain, Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych was unceremoniously ousted.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the democratic utopia that America figured was inevitable didn\u2019t take shape (just like it didn\u2019t take shape after Gaddafi in Libya or after Saddam in Iraq) and now, Ukraine is mired in civil war as Russian-backed separatists battle Kiev\u2019s US-backed regulars and a handful of nationalist militias.<\/p>\n

The point is, that problem hasn\u2019t gone away and in fact, reports indicate that the violence has accelerated this week. Ukraine, and before that, the Crimea \u201cincident,\u201d were the \u201coriginal\u201d Russia Vs. NATO proxy playgrounds and have only faded from memory because of just how dramatic the situation in Syria truly is. While tensions in Syria revolve primarily around the possibility of an \u201caccident\u201d that leads to a wider conflict, the Ukraine\/Crimea issue was characterized by both sides\u2019 fears of the other’s territorial ambitions. NATO insisted that Vladimir Putin intended to invade and annex other territory while The Kremlin contended that a series of snap drills, war games, and heavy weapons deployments telegraphed NATO\u2019s desire to expand its capabilities and influence on the way to threatening Russia\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

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Russia Threatens “Retaliatory Action” After NATO Expands Alliance For First Time In Six Years As the war in Syria enters its fifth year with no end in site, it\u2019s easy to forget about the world\u2019s \u201cother\u201d proxy conflict, that which is still unfolding in Ukraine. You might remember Ukraine as yet another example of US […]<\/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":[179,333,442,3046,471,10908,553,683,694,821,857,865,4318],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crimea","tag-france","tag-iraq","tag-john-mccain","tag-kremlin","tag-montenegro","tag-nato","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-washington","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","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=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}