{"id":30905,"date":"2018-02-12T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30905"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:03:17","slug":"dutch-official-admits-lying-about-meeting-with-putin-is-fake-news-used-by-russia-or-about-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30905","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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EVERY EMPIRE NEEDS<\/u> a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of World War II, Moscow played this role perfectly. But the fall of Soviet Union meant, at least for a while, that the Kremlin could no longer sustain sufficient fear levels. After some brief, largely unsuccessful auditions for possible replacements \u2014 Asian actors like China<\/a> and a splurging Japan<\/a>were considered \u2014\u00a0the post-9\/11\u00a0era\u00a0elevated\u00a0a cast\u00a0of Muslim understudies to the starring role: Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, ISIS and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and \u201cjihadism\u201d generally kept fear alive.<\/p>\n

The lack of any 9\/11-type catastrophic attack on U.S. (or any Western) soil for the past 17 years, along with the killing of a pitifully aged, ailing bin Laden and the erosion of ISIS, has severely compromised their\u00a0ongoing viability as major bad guys. So now \u2014 just as a film studio revitalizes a once-successful super-villain franchise for a new generation of moviegoers\u00a0\u2014 we\u2019re back to the Russians\u00a0occupying center stage.<\/p>\n

That Barack Obama spent eight years (including up through his final year-end news conference) mocking the notion that Russia posed a serious threat to the U.S. given their size and capabilities, and that he even tried\u00a0repeatedly to accommodate and partner with<\/a>\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin, is of no concern: In the internet age, \u201c2016\u201d is regarded as ancient history, drowned out by an endless array of new threats pinned by a united media on the Russkie Plague.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo: Alexander Utkin\/AFP\/Getty Images Dutch Official Admits Lying About Meeting With Putin: Is Fake News Used by Russia or About Russia? EVERY EMPIRE NEEDS a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[259,2779,5437,1479,694,5567,827,857],"class_list":["post-30905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-empire","tag-fake-news","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-netherlands","tag-russia","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905","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=30905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30906,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions\/30906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}