{"id":565645,"date":"2022-03-21T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a197b5995dae241cc28f7a3ab2c1a555"},"modified":"2022-03-21T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T01:45:00","slug":"is-it-ok-to-mention-nato-expansionism-when-we-discuss-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/21\/is-it-ok-to-mention-nato-expansionism-when-we-discuss-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it ok to mention NATO expansionism when we discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>The issue that has generated heated discussion on the left is not over whether the Russian invasion is justifiable, writes <strong>Steve Ellner<\/strong>, but whether raising the issue of NATO distracts from the atrocity of the invasion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/content\/it-ok-mention-nato-expansionism-when-we-discuss-russian-invasion-ukraine\">Green Left<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue that has generated heated discussion on the left is not over whether the Russian invasion is justifiable, writes Steve Ellner, but whether raising the issue of NATO distracts from the atrocity of the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,26553,10475,712,376,43370,7988,340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565645"}],"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\/9644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565839,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565645\/revisions\/565839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}