{"id":1112096,"date":"2023-06-30T05:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287410"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:37:57","slug":"two-ways-that-the-ukraine-war-could-have-been-prevented-and-might-be-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/30\/two-ways-that-the-ukraine-war-could-have-been-prevented-and-might-be-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ways That the Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented (and Might Be Ended)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted. The most obvious way was for the Russian government to abandon its plan for the military conquest of Ukraine. The problem on this score, though, was that Vladimir Putin was determined to revive Russia\u2019s \u201cgreat  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/two-ways-that-the-ukraine-war-could-have-been-prevented-and-might-be-ended\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/30\/two-ways-that-the-ukraine-war-could-have-been-prevented-and-might-be-ended\/\">Two Ways That the Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented (and Might Be Ended)<\/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\/two-ways-that-the-ukraine-war-could-have-been-prevented-and-might-be-ended\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted. The most obvious way was for the Russian government to abandon its plan for the military conquest of Ukraine. The problem on this sc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"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\/1112096"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112097,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112096\/revisions\/1112097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}