{"id":38090,"date":"2018-09-21T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38090"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:49:30","slug":"has-russia-given-up-on-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38090","title":{"rendered":"Has Russia Given Up on the West?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Has Russia Given Up on the West?<\/a><\/h3>\n

By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an \u201cevil empire,\u201d was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back.<\/p>\n

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.<\/p>\n

And how have we husbanded the fruits of our Cold War triumph?<\/p>\n

This month, China\u2019s leader-for-life Xi Jinping stood beside Vladimir Putin as 3,000 Chinese troops maneuvered with 300,000 Russians, 1,000 planes and 900 tanks in Moscow\u2019s largest military exercise in 40 years.<\/p>\n

An uncoded message to the West from the East.<\/p>\n

Richard Nixon\u2019s great achievement in bringing Peking in from the cold, and Reagan\u2019s great achievement of ending the Cold War, are history.<\/p>\n

Bolshevism may be dead, but Russian nationalism, awakened by NATO\u2019s quick march to Russia\u2019s ancient frontiers, is alive and well.<\/p>\n

Russia appears to have given up on the West and accepted that its hopes for better times with President Donald Trump are not to be.<\/p>\n

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is berating Russia for secretly trading with North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions, saying, \u201cLying, cheating, and rogue behavior have become the new norm of the Russian culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cold wars don\u2019t get much colder than defaming another country\u2019s culture as morally debased.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has also signaled that it may start supplying naval and anti-aircraft weaponry to Ukraine, as Russia is being warned to cease its inspections of ships passing from the Black Sea through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n

The three-mile-wide strait lies between Crimea and Kerch Peninsula. In Russia\u2019s eyes, both banks of the strait are Russian national territory.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has Russia Given Up on the West? By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an \u201cevil empire,\u201d was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. And how have we husbanded the fruits 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],"tags":[130,149,179,7844,553,15860,14065,3098,694,821,827,857,965,6392],"class_list":["post-38090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-crimea","tag-donald-trump","tag-nato","tag-nikki-haley","tag-patrick-j-buchanan","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-west","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090","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=38090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38091,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38090\/revisions\/38091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}