{"id":2114,"date":"2014-11-27T06:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:49:14","slug":"nato-concerned-over-russian-forces-in-crimea-europe-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"NATO concerned over Russian forces in Crimea &#8211; Europe &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/11\/nato-concerned-over-russian-forces-crimea-2014112755012811219.html\">NATO concerned over Russian forces in Crimea &#8211; Europe &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NATO&#8217;s top military commander has said he is &#8220;very concerned&#8221; that Russia&#8217;s military build-up in the annexed Crimean region could be used as a launchpad for attacks across the whole Black Sea region.<\/p>\n<p>US General Philip\u00a0Breedlove&#8217;s\u00a0comments late on Wednesday came amid fears in Kiev that Russian-backed rebels will try to grab more land in eastern Ukraine to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very concerned with the militarisation of Crimea,&#8221; Breedlove said, following meetings with Ukraine&#8217;s top political and military leaders in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The capabilities that are being installed in Crimea &#8230; are able to exert influence over the entire Black Sea,&#8221; he said, highlighting the influx of cruise missiles and surface-to-air rockets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO concerned over Russian forces in Crimea &#8211; Europe &#8211; Al Jazeera English. NATO&#8217;s top military commander has said he is &#8220;very concerned&#8221; that Russia&#8217;s military build-up in the annexed Crimean region could be used as a launchpad for attacks across the whole Black Sea region. US General Philip\u00a0Breedlove&#8217;s\u00a0comments late on Wednesday came amid fears [&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":[179,553,694,821],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crimea","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","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=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}