{"id":37219,"date":"2018-09-01T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37219"},"modified":"2018-09-01T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:44:23","slug":"provocations-have-a-history-of-escalating-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37219","title":{"rendered":"Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian patriots who are tiring of Putin\u2019s non-confrontational responses to Washington\u2019s never-ending insults and military provocations. Russian patriots don\u2019t want war, but they do want their country\u2019s honor defended, and they believe Putin is failing in this job. Some of them are saying that Putin himself is a West-worshipping Atlanticist Integrationist.<\/p>\n

This disillusinonment with Putin, together with Putin\u2019s endorsement of raising the retirement age for pensions, a trap set for him by Russia\u2019s neoliberal economists, have hurt Putin\u2019s approval ratings at the precise time that he will again be tested by Washington in Syria.<\/p>\n

In many columns I have defended Putin from the charge that he is not sufficiently Russian. Putin wants to avoid war, because he knows it would be nuclear, the consequences of which would be dire. He knows that the US and its militarily impotent NATO allies cannot possibly conduct conventional warfare against Russia or China, much less against both. Putin also undersrtands that the sanctions are damaging Washington\u2019s European vassals and could eventually force the European vassal states into independence that would constrain Washington\u2019s belligerence. Even with Russia\u2019s new super weapons, which probably give Putin the capability of destroying the entirety of the Western World with little or no damage to Russia, Putin sees no point in so much destruction, especially as the consequences are unknown. There could be nuclear winter or other results that would put the planet into decline as a life-sustaining entity.<\/p>\n

So, as I have suggested in many columns Putin is acting intelligently. He is in the game for the long term while protecting the world from dangerous war.<\/p>\n

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Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War The Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian patriots who are tiring of Putin\u2019s non-confrontational responses to Washington\u2019s never-ending insults and military provocations. Russian patriots don\u2019t […]<\/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":[1997,2500,553,2951,21467,694,827,7087,857,862,865,965],"class_list":["post-37219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-history","tag-nato","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-provocation","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-vassal-state","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219","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=37219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37220,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37219\/revisions\/37220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}