{"id":550614,"date":"2022-03-10T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=236799"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:56:38","slug":"russia-has-been-baited-into-a-repeat-of-the-afghan-trap-first-time-as-tragedy-second-time-as-sickening-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/10\/russia-has-been-baited-into-a-repeat-of-the-afghan-trap-first-time-as-tragedy-second-time-as-sickening-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Has Been Baited into a Repeat of the Afghan Trap: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Sickening Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018bait and bleed\u2019 was defined by International Relations theorist John Mearsheimer in 2001 as a military strategy that \u201cinvolves causing two rivals to engage in a protracted war, so that they bleed each other white, while the baiter remains on the sideline, its military strength intact.\u201d The current National Defence Strategy (NDS) of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/11\/russia-has-been-baited-into-a-repeat-of-the-afghan-trap-first-time-as-tragedy-second-time-as-sickening-farce\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/11\/russia-has-been-baited-into-a-repeat-of-the-afghan-trap-first-time-as-tragedy-second-time-as-sickening-farce\/\">Russia Has Been Baited into a Repeat of the Afghan Trap: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Sickening Farce<\/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\/03\/11\/russia-has-been-baited-into-a-repeat-of-the-afghan-trap-first-time-as-tragedy-second-time-as-sickening-farce\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018bait and bleed\u2019 was defined by International Relations theorist John Mearsheimer in 2001 as a military strategy that \u201cinvolves causing two rivals to engage in a protracted war, so that they bleed each other white, while the baiter remains on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"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\/550614"}],"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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551401,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550614\/revisions\/551401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}