{"id":152526,"date":"2021-05-06T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=195410"},"modified":"2021-05-06T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:32:00","slug":"u-s-doesnt-accept-spheres-of-influence-blinken-says-in-comments-aimed-at-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/06\/u-s-doesnt-accept-spheres-of-influence-blinken-says-in-comments-aimed-at-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Doesn&#8217;t Accept &#8216;Spheres Of Influence,&#8217; Blinken Says In Comments Aimed At Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/e8441dcc-ac88-4926-9a00-d34fe325187e_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States does not recognize &#8220;spheres of influence,&#8221; seeing it as an idea &#8220;that should have been retired after World War II,&#8221; Secretary of State Antony Blinken told RFE\/RL&#8217;s Ukrainian Service while on a visit to Kyiv on May 6. While making his remarks in response to a question by Olena Removska on U.S. reaction to a recent warning by Vladimir Putin that the West should not cross Moscow&#8217;s &#8220;red lines,&#8221; Washington&#8217;s top diplomat also said that sticking to this concept was &#8220;a recipe not for cooperation, but for conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/06\/u-s-doesnt-accept-spheres-of-influence-blinken-says-in-comments-aimed-at-russia\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States does not recognize \u201cspheres of influence,\u201d seeing it as an idea \u201cthat should have been retired after World War II,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,24,376,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152526"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152527,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152526\/revisions\/152527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}