{"id":2294,"date":"2014-12-02T06:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:45:12","slug":"tensions-between-the-u-s-and-russia-are-worse-than-you-realize-remarks-by-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite an\u00a0interest in geopolitics, I haven\u2019t really written anything on the concerning and worsening tension between the government of the United States and the government of Russia. I intentionally wrote government twice in order to\u00a0emphasize the fact that 99.9% of Americans do not have real\u00a0grievances with actual\u00a0Russian people, and vice versa. This is a high-level conflict between powerful \u201cleaders\u201d playing a game of\u00a0Risk<\/em>\u00a0with average citizen as pawns. This is how it\u2019s always been. As human beings, we should never lose sight of this so the mistakes we make in the future aren\u2019t nearly as tragic as those made by our\u00a0ancestors.<\/p>\n

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One disconcerting thing I have noticed amongst some \u201cliberty-minded\u201d people I follow, is a knee-jerk tendency to pick a side in this affair. When it comes to powerful men running centralized nation-states with nuclear weapons, there are no church boys involved. I have noticed a desire to defend Russia every step of the way in what appears to be a simple-minded emotional reflex birthed in justifiable disgust with what they see happening in their home nations (the U.S. and UK in particular).<\/p>\n

This behavior has always made me uncomfortable, and reminds me very much of how people get upset with one fake political party and then vote for the other guy simply because they are not a Democrat or a Republican. The best choice is to accept they are both useless and not vigorously defend\u00a0either party. I take the same tact when it comes to battles between nation-states. Just because I am disgusted and horrified with what is happening in these United States, doesn\u2019t mean I need to slavishly defend Russia, Vladimir Putin or pick any sides in a conflict in which the primary losers will always be powerless civilians.<\/p>\n

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Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize \u2013 Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Despite an\u00a0interest in geopolitics, I haven\u2019t really written anything on the concerning and worsening tension between the government of the United States and the government of Russia. I intentionally wrote government twice in order […]<\/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":[1559,694,827,862],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-nation-state","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}