{"id":843304,"date":"2022-10-17T06:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=259811"},"modified":"2022-10-17T06:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T06:03:37","slug":"bad-leaders-declining-nations-uk-italy-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/17\/bad-leaders-declining-nations-uk-italy-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Leaders, Declining Nations: UK, Italy and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries in decline are dangerous and unpredictable beasts. They may produce leaders who attempt to reverse the process by some adventurous action that has not been tried before. This usually turns out to be far riskier than they imagined, but they cannot retreat as their own political existence is now at stake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/17\/bad-leaders-declining-nations-uk-italy-and-russia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/17\/bad-leaders-declining-nations-uk-italy-and-russia\/\">Bad Leaders, Declining Nations: UK, Italy and 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\/10\/17\/bad-leaders-declining-nations-uk-italy-and-russia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries in decline are dangerous and unpredictable beasts. They may produce leaders who attempt to reverse the process by some adventurous action that has not been tried before. This usually turns out to be far riskier than they imagined, but they ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843304"}],"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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843305,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843304\/revisions\/843305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}