{"id":36154,"date":"2018-07-22T06:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36154"},"modified":"2018-07-22T06:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:54:57","slug":"americas-derangement-syndrome-a-danger-to-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36154","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"America\u2019s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/or-41101.jpg\" alt=\"America\u2019s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/america-derangement-syndrome-danger-world-peace.html\">America\u2019s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>It is significant that Presidents Putin and Trump have both spoken out against \u201chaters\u201d among America\u2019s political establishment who would rather see conflict between Russia and the United States instead of a normalization of bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>Following their landmark, successful summit this week in Helsinki, Putin and Trump separately made public comments deploring the hostile hysterical reaction emanating from broad sections of the US political establishment and its dutiful, controlled news media.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Moscow to his diplomatic corps, President Putin warned that there were \u201cpowerful forces\u201d within the US which are ready to sacrifice the interests of their country and indeed the interests of world peace in order to pursue selfish ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump also slammed opponents in the US who \u201chated\u201d to see him having a good meeting with Putin. \u201cThey would rather see a major confrontation with Russia, even if that could lead to war,\u201d said the American president.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it in a nutshell. Rather than welcoming the opening of a cordial dialogue between the US and Russia, the American political establishment seems to desire the deepening of already dangerous tensions between the world\u2019s two nuclear superpowers. If that\u2019s not deranged, then what is?<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, the hostile reaction was overwhelmingly on the American side. Russians, by and large, welcomed the long-overdue summit between Trump and Putin, and the potential beginning of a new spirit of dialogue and partnership on a range of urgent global problems. Problems including arms control, nuclear proliferation, and working out political settlement to conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korea Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace It is significant that Presidents Putin and Trump have both spoken out against \u201chaters\u201d among America\u2019s political establishment who would rather see conflict between Russia and the United States instead of a normalization of bilateral relations. Following their landmark, successful summit this week in Helsinki, Putin and [&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":[5,6],"tags":[7844,20966,694,8203,827,857],"class_list":["post-36154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-political-establishment","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154","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=36154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36155,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154\/revisions\/36155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}