{"id":1040385,"date":"2023-03-28T05:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=277940"},"modified":"2023-03-28T05:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:34:29","slug":"we-dont-have-to-choose-between-nuclear-madmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/28\/we-dont-have-to-choose-between-nuclear-madmen\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Have to Choose Between Nuclear Madmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the war in neighboring Ukraine. As the Associated Press reported, \u201cPutin said the move was triggered by Britain\u2019s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/28\/we-dont-have-to-choose-between-nuclear-madmen\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/28\/we-dont-have-to-choose-between-nuclear-madmen\/\">We Don\u2019t Have to Choose Between Nuclear Madmen<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/28\/we-dont-have-to-choose-between-nuclear-madmen\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the war in neighboring Ukraine. As the Associated Press reported, \u201cPuti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040386,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040385\/revisions\/1040386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}