{"id":5992,"date":"2015-02-25T06:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2015-02-25T06:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T11:54:21","slug":"how-far-is-it-from-kiev-to-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5992","title":{"rendered":"How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/02\/how-far-is-it-from-kiev-to-athens\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Riddle me this, Batman. I don\u2019t think I get it, and I definitely don\u2019t get why nobody is asking any questions. The IMF and EU make a lot of noise \u2013 through the Eurogroup \u2013 about all the conditions Greece has to address to get even a mild extension of support, while the same IMF and EU keep on handing out cash to Ukraine without as much as a whisper \u2013 at least publicly.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiev government, which has been ceaselessly and ruthlessly attacking its own people, is now portrayed as needing \u2013 monetary and military \u2013 western help in order to be able to \u2018defend\u2019 itself. From the people it\u2019s been attacking, presumably. And hardly a soul in the west asks what that is all about.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Kiev kill 5000 of its own citizens? Because there are people in East Ukraine who had \u2013 and still have \u2013 the guts to say they don\u2019t want to be ruled by a regime willing to murder them for saying they don\u2019t want to be ruled by it. And just in case there\u2019s any confusion left about this, yes, that is the regime we are actively supporting, in undoubtedly many more ways than are made public. All the doubts about the western narrative are swept aside with one move: blame Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two countries, Greece, despite its humanitarian issues, is by far the luckiest one. Ukraine is quite a few steps further down the hill. One can be forgiven for contemplating that the west, aided by President Poroshenko and the Yats regime in Kiev, is dead set on obliterating the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens? Riddle me this, Batman. I don\u2019t think I get it, and I definitely don\u2019t get why nobody is asking any questions. The IMF and EU make a lot of noise \u2013 through the Eurogroup \u2013 about all the conditions Greece has to address to get even a [&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":[2,5],"tags":[2504,279,284,1167,418,434,1610,821],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-athens","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-greece","tag-imf","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-kiev","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","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=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}