{"id":1112056,"date":"2023-06-30T05:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287599"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:54:35","slug":"are-putin-and-trump-playing-russian-roulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/30\/are-putin-and-trump-playing-russian-roulette\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Putin and Trump Playing Russian Roulette?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think anyone in the West, myself included, has a clue about Kremlin politics. Paramilitary convicted felon Yevgeny Prigozhin could be trafficking small boys to the Politburo, plotting against the Russian general staff, hoping to leverage his mercenaries to take over Syria or Mali, or finishing up his Boy Scout merit badges for all  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/are-putin-and-trump-playing-russian-roulette\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/are-putin-and-trump-playing-russian-roulette\/\">Are Putin and Trump Playing Russian Roulette?<\/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\/06\/30\/are-putin-and-trump-playing-russian-roulette\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think anyone in the West, myself included, has a clue about Kremlin politics. Paramilitary convicted felon Yevgeny Prigozhin could be trafficking small boys to the Politburo, plotting against the Russian general staff, hoping to leverage his me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"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\/1112056"}],"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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112132,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112056\/revisions\/1112132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}