{"id":391,"date":"2014-10-21T23:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-10-21T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:52:35","slug":"cluborlov-how-to-start-a-war-and-lose-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cluborlov.blogspot.ca\/2014\/10\/how-to-start-war-and-lose-empire.html\">ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"color: #1e2b1e; text-decoration: underline; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-U0URpc-fxg0\/VEQB8ghJ9fI\/AAAAAAAAFog\/wOwh4KBavhY\/s1600\/ImageOfTheEnemy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #333333;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-U0URpc-fxg0\/VEQB8ghJ9fI\/AAAAAAAAFog\/wOwh4KBavhY\/s1600\/ImageOfTheEnemy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #41485e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;\">A year and a half I wrote\u00a0<a style=\"color: #485e41; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/cluborlov.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/the-image-of-enemy.html\" target=\"_blank\">an essay<\/a>\u00a0on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled\u00a0<i>The Image of the Enemy<\/i>. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations that seemed important at the time. It turns out that I managed to spot an important trend, but given the quick pace of developments since then, these observations are now woefully out of date, and so here is an update.<br \/>\n<a name=\"more\"><\/a><br \/>\nAt that time the stakes weren&#8217;t very high yet. There was much noise around a fellow named Magnitsky, a corporate lawyer-crook who got caught and died in pretrial custody. He had been holding items for some bigger Western crooks, who were, of course, never apprehended. The Americans chose to treat this as a human rights violation and responded with the so-called \u201cMagnitsky Act\u201d which sanctioned certain Russian individuals who were labeled as human rights violators. Russian legislators responded with the \u201cDima Yakovlev Bill,\u201d named after a Russian orphan adopted by Americans who killed him by leaving him in a locked car for nine hours. This bill banned American orphan-killing fiends from adopting any more Russian orphans. It all amounted to a silly bit of melodrama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClubOrlov: How to start a war and lose an empire. A year and a half I wrote\u00a0an essay\u00a0on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled\u00a0The Image of the Enemy. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations [&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":[259,355,694,834],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-empire","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-russia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}