{"id":511665,"date":"2022-02-14T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=234000"},"modified":"2022-02-14T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:32:25","slug":"setting-up-crises-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/14\/setting-up-crises-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979.\u00a0 Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security state officials was to goad the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/14\/setting-up-crises-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/14\/setting-up-crises-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine\/\">Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine<\/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\/2022\/02\/14\/setting-up-crises-in-afghanistan-and-ukraine\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn\u2019t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979.\u00a0 Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"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\/511665"}],"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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512834,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511665\/revisions\/512834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}