{"id":4702,"date":"2015-01-21T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2015-01-21T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:55:02","slug":"trolling-russia-israel-shamir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Trolling Russia \u2014 Israel Shamir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/01\/19\/trolling-russia-israel-shamir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trolling Russia \u2014 Israel Shamir<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The edifice of world post-1991 order is collapsing right now before our eyes. President Putin\u2019s decision to give a miss to the Auschwitz pilgrimage, right after his absence in Paris at the Charlie festival, gave it the last shove. It was good clean fun to troll Russia, as long as it stayed the course. Not anymore. Russia broke the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Russia, like a country bumpkin in Eton, tried to belong. It attended the gathering of the grandees where it was shunned, paid its dues to European bodies that condemned it, patiently suffered ceaseless hectoring of the great powers and irritating baiting of East European small-timers alike. But something broke down. The lad does not want to belong anymore; he picked up his stuff and went home \u2013 just when they needed him to knee in Auschwitz.<\/p>\n<p>Auschwitz gathering is an annual Canossa of Western leaders where they bewail their historic failure to protect the Jews and swear their perennial obedience to them. This is a more important religious rite of our times, the One Ring to rule them all, established in 2001, when the Judeo-American empire had reached the pinnacle of its power. The Russian leader had duly attended the events. This year, they will have to do without him. Israeli ministers already have expressed their deep dissatisfaction for this was Russia\u2019s Red Army that saved the Jews in Auschwitz, after all. Russia\u2019s absence will turn the Holocaust memorial day into a parochial, West-only, event. Worse, Russia\u2019s place will be taken by Ukraine, ruled by unrepentant heirs to Hitler\u2019s Bandera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trolling Russia \u2014 Israel Shamir The edifice of world post-1991 order is collapsing right now before our eyes. President Putin\u2019s decision to give a miss to the Auschwitz pilgrimage, right after his absence in Paris at the Charlie festival, gave it the last shove. It was good clean fun to troll Russia, as long as [&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":[660,694,821,857,965],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","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=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}