{"id":4312,"date":"2015-01-09T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2015-01-09T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:11:41","slug":"gorbachev-warns-of-major-war-in-europe-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"Gorbachev warns of major war in Europe over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/reuters\/article-2903749\/Gorbachev-warns-major-war-Europe-Ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gorbachev warns of major war in Europe over Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that tensions between Russia and European powers over the Ukraine crisis could result in a major conflict or even nuclear war, in an interview to appear in a German news magazine on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a nuclear war,&#8221; the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner told Der Spiegel news magazine, according to excerpts released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t survive the coming years if someone loses their nerve in this overheated situation,&#8221; added Gorbachev, 83. &#8220;This is not something I&#8217;m saying thoughtlessly. I am extremely concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Russia and Western powers rose after pro-Russian separatists took control of large parts of eastern Ukraine and Russia annexed Crimea in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, NATO and the European Union accuse Russia of sending troops and weapons to support the separatist uprising, and have imposed sanctions on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\nRead more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/reuters\/article-2903749\/Gorbachev-warns-major-war-Europe-Ukraine.html#ixzz3ONeX77f3\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/reuters\/article-2903749\/Gorbachev-warns-major-war-Europe-Ukraine.html#ixzz3ONeX77f3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorbachev warns of major war in Europe over Ukraine BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that tensions between Russia and European powers over the Ukraine crisis could result in a major conflict or even nuclear war, in an interview to appear in a German news magazine on Saturday. &#8220;A war [&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":[279,2534,553,694,821,834,862],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eu","tag-mikhail-gorbachev","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}