{"id":2505,"date":"2014-12-05T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2014-12-05T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:40:14","slug":"the-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity-reckless-congress-declares-war-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Reckless Congress &#8216;Declares War&#8217; on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2014\/december\/04\/reckless-congress-declares-war-on-russia\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Reckless Congress &#8216;Declares War&#8217; on Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #111111; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c7093; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/media\/119563\/kinziner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; height: 143px; max-width: 100%; width: 164px; border: initial none initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/media\/119563\/kinziner.png?width=164px&amp;height=143px\" alt=\"undefined\" \/><\/a><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution \u201cstrongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination.\u201d<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>In fact, the bill was 16 pages of war propaganda that should have made even neocons blush, if they were capable of such a thing.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>These are the kinds of resolutions I have always watched closely in Congress, as what are billed as \u201charmless\u201d statements of opinion often lead to sanctions and war. I remember in 1998 arguing strongly against the Iraq Liberation Act because, as I said at the time, I knew it would lead to war. I did not oppose the Act because I was an admirer of Saddam Hussein \u2013 just as now I am not an admirer of Putin or any foreign political leader \u2013 but rather because I knew then that another war against Iraq would not solve the problems and would probably make things worse. We all know what happened next.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>That is why I can hardly believe they are getting away with it again, and this time with even higher stakes: provoking a war with Russia that could result in total destruction!<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>If anyone thinks I am exaggerating about how bad this resolution really is, let me just offer a few examples from the legislation itself:<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Reckless Congress &#8216;Declares War&#8217; on Russia. Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution \u201cstrongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has [&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":[1672,655,694,1671],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-h-res-758","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-us-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}