{"id":304,"date":"2014-10-20T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=304"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:45:33","slug":"if-republicans-win-control-of-the-senate-in-november-nuclear-war-with-russia-will-be-more-likely-heres-why-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"If Republicans Win Control of the Senate in November, Nuclear War with Russia Will Be More Likely. Here&#8217;s Why. Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/republicans-win-control-senate-november-nuclear-war-russia-will-likely-heres.html\">If Republicans Win Control of the Senate in November, Nuclear War with Russia Will Be More Likely. Here&#8217;s Why. Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Senate Bill\u00a0<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"S. 2277\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/08\/04\/senate-bill-preps-for-war-with-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">S. 2277<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is sponsored by 26 Republicans and no Democrats, and it would give President Obama the virtually unlimited authority to take U.S. to war against Russia in defense of the Ukrainian Government that\u00a0<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Obama\u2019s February 2014 coup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s February 2014 coup<\/a><\/span>\u00a0established in Ukraine, the government that\u2019s controlled by a\u00a0<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"coalition of one fascist party and two nazi (or racist-fascist) parties in northwest Ukraine\" href=\"http:\/\/peoplesworld.org\/ukrainian-ultra-rightists-given-major-cabinet-posts-in-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">coalition of one fascist party and two nazi (or racist-fascist) parties in northwest Ukraine<\/a><\/span>. (Southeast Ukraine isn\u2019t represented in the coalition;\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"southeast Ukraine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polgeonow.com\/2014\/03\/ukraine-divisions-election-language.html\" target=\"_blank\">southeast Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"voted overwhelmingly \u2014 and you can see the exact percentages here\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukrainian_presidential_election,_2010#mediaviewer\/File:%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80_2010_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%85-en.png\" target=\"_blank\">voted overwhelmingly \u2014 and you can see the exact percentages here<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for the President that Obama\u2019s coup toppled in February 2014.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Paul Roderick Gregory headlined at the\u00a0<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Forbes<\/em>\u00a0site on October 10th,\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"\u201cA Republican Senate Can Help Send U.S. Weapons to Ukraine,\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2014\/10\/10\/a-republican-senate-can-help-send-u-s-weapons-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA Republican Senate Can Help Send U.S. Weapons to Ukraine,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and he condemned Obama for backing off on Ukraine, and said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cI recently gave\u00a0five compelling reasons\u00a0for U.S. lethal aid to Ukraine, and I explained why inaction on Ukraine\u00a0threatens\u00a0the destruction of NATO\u00a0as we know it. The American establishment elite have increasingly\u00a0concluded the same: that we must give Ukraine the means to defend itself\u00a0against Russian aggression. Add\u00a0former defense secretary and CIA head,\u00a0Leon Panetta, to a long list of diplomats (Mike\u00a0McFaul, Strobe\u00a0Talbot),\u00a0generals (Martin\u00a0Dempsey, Philip\u00a0Breedlove\u00a0et al.), congressmen and senators (Ben Nelson, Sander Levin, Jim\u00a0Gerlach, Gerland Connoly, Robert Menendez, Bob Corker, to\u00a0name just a few) who disagree with the president\u00a0on Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Republicans Win Control of the Senate in November, Nuclear War with Russia Will Be More Likely. Here&#8217;s Why. Washington&#8217;s Blog. Senate Bill\u00a0S. 2277\u00a0is sponsored by 26 Republicans and no Democrats, and it would give President Obama the virtually unlimited authority to take U.S. to war against Russia in defense of the Ukrainian Government that\u00a0Obama\u2019s [&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":[205,678,694,717,821,891],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-democrats","tag-republicans","tag-russia","tag-senate","tag-ukraine","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}