{"id":529019,"date":"2022-02-25T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=235284"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:54:33","slug":"what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/25\/what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"What the US Does Not Understand About  Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain. Leading up to the Russian recognition of the break away regions of Ukraine one heard repeated assertions by US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken that diplomacy was still possible. Such an assertion was premised upon a false set  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/25\/what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/02\/25\/what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia\/\">What the US Does Not Understand About  Russia<\/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\/25\/what-the-us-does-not-understand-about-russia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War has begun in Ukraine and where it heads next is uncertain. Leading up to the Russian recognition of the break away regions of Ukraine one heard repeated assertions by US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken that diplomacy w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"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\/529019"}],"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\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529020,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529019\/revisions\/529020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}