{"id":1111660,"date":"2023-06-30T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287502"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:59:39","slug":"destroying-eastern-ukraine-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/30\/destroying-eastern-ukraine-to-save-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. ~PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, American University, June 10, 1963 Following an\u00a0essay\u00a0I published earlier this month and the\u00a0letter\u00a0the\u00a0Eisenhower Media Network\u00a0ran in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0in May, I have heard forceful and passionate protests that Russia had no other option but to invade Ukraine in February  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/destroying-eastern-ukraine-to-save-it\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/destroying-eastern-ukraine-to-save-it\/\">Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. ~PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, American University, June 10, 1963 Following an\u00a0essay\u00a0I published earlier this month and the\u00a0letter\u00a0the\u00a0Eisenhower Media Network\u00a0ran in\u00a0The New York &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111660"}],"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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111900,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111660\/revisions\/1111900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}