{"id":588,"date":"2014-10-25T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=588"},"modified":"2014-10-25T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:31:17","slug":"whatever-we-decide-is-a-disaster-for-us-france-admits-putin-is-winning-europe-blinked-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"“Whatever We Decide Is A Disaster For Us” France Admits Putin Is Winning, Europe “Blinked” | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Whatever We Decide Is A Disaster For Us” France Admits Putin Is Winning, Europe “Blinked” | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the analogy of Vladimir Putin playing geopolitical chess (while the rest of the world plays checkers) has been a popular one, the French ambassador Gerard Araud has a different – somewhat stunningly honest\u00a0 – persepctive:\u00a0Putin “is more a poker player really, putting all the money on the table; saying, ‘Do the same’ and of course we blink. We don’t do the same.”<\/strong>\u00a0As Bloomberg reports<\/a>, Araud goes on to express entirely un-Juncker-like, how Putin has outmaneuvered his opponents and humiliated Ukraine. Simply put, he adds, the\u00a0Russian president “has won<\/strong>\u00a0because we were not ready to die for Ukraine, while apparently he was,” leaving the ominous question, “when is Putin going to stop?\u00a0Whatever we decide is a disaster for us<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

As Bloomberg reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin has outmaneuvered his opponents and humiliated Ukraine<\/strong>by continuing to back pro-Russian separatists and flouting a cease-fire, making it crucial that sanctions on Russia remain firm, France\u2019s ambassador to the U.S. said.<\/p>\n

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The Russian president \u201chas won because we were not ready to die for Ukraine, while apparently he was,\u201d<\/strong>Ambassador Gerard Araud said yesterday at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington… Echoing the view of other European envoys in Washington,Araud expressed concern that the Ukraine conflict has hit an impasse, leaving Putin the winner by default.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Whatever We Decide Is A Disaster For Us” France Admits Putin Is Winning, Europe “Blinked” | Zero Hedge. While the analogy of Vladimir Putin playing geopolitical chess (while the rest of the world plays checkers) has been a popular one, the French ambassador Gerard Araud has a different – somewhat stunningly honest\u00a0 – persepctive:\u00a0Putin “is […]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[281,358,660,694,821,865],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-gerard-araud","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}