{"id":6014,"date":"2015-02-25T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2015-02-25T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:17:34","slug":"washington-has-resurrected-the-threat-of-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6014","title":{"rendered":"Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/02\/24\/washington-resurrected-threat-nuclear-war-paul-craig-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>\u00a0is the publication of the elitist Council on Foreign Relations, a collection of former and current government officials, academics, and corporate and financial executives who regard themselves as the custodian and formulator of US foreign policy. The publication of the council carries the heavy weight of authority. One doesn\u2019t expect to find humor in it, but I found myself roaring with laughter while reading an article in the February 5 online issue by Alexander J. Motyl, \u201cGoodbye, Putin: Why the President\u2019s Days Are Numbered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I assumed I was reading a clever parody of Washington\u2019s anti-Putin propaganda. Absurd statement followed absurd statement. It was better than Colbert. I couldn\u2019t stop laughing.<\/p>\n<p>To my dismay I discovered that the absolute gibberish wasn\u2019t a parody of Washington\u2019s propaganda. Motyl, an ardent Ukrainian nationalist, is a professor at Rugers University and was not joking when he wrote that Putin had stolen $45 billion, that Putin was resurrecting the Soviet Empire, that Putin had troops and tanks in Ukraine and had started the war in Ukraine, that Putin is an authoritarian whose regime is \u201cexceedingly brittle\u201d and subject to being overthrown at any time by the people Putin has bought off with revenues from the former high oil price, or by \u201can Orange Revolution in Moscow\u201d in which Putin is overthrown by Washington orchestrated demonstrations by US financed NGOs as in Ukraine, or by a coup d\u2019etat by Putin\u2019s Praetorial guards. And if none of this sends Putin goodbye, the North Caucasus, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and the Crimean Tarters are spinning out of control and will do Washington\u2019s will by unseating Putin. Only the West\u2019s friendly relationship with Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakstan can shield \u201cthe rest of the world from Putin\u2019s disastrous legacy of ruin.\u201d<\/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>Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War Foreign Affairs\u00a0is the publication of the elitist Council on Foreign Relations, a collection of former and current government officials, academics, and corporate and financial executives who regard themselves as the custodian and formulator of US foreign policy. The publication of the council carries the heavy weight of [&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":[3781,953,542,581,821,1174,857,862,865],"class_list":["post-6014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-alexander-motyl","tag-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-moscow","tag-nuclear-war","tag-ukraine","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014","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=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}