{"id":856654,"date":"2022-10-27T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=261584"},"modified":"2022-10-27T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:59:40","slug":"the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/27\/the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Must Stop Blocking Negotiations Between Ukraine and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since 2014, the United States has\u2014through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative of the U.S. Department of Defense\u2014spent more than $19 billion in providing training and equipment to the Ukrainian military ($17.6 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022). The total annual budget of the United Nations for 2022 is $3.12 billion, far less than the amount spent by the U.S. on Ukraine today. The arming of Ukraine, the statements about weakening Russia by senior officials of the U.S. government, and the refusal to initiate any kind of arms control negotiations prolong a war that is ugly and unnecessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/27\/the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/27\/the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia\/\">The West Must Stop Blocking Negotiations Between Ukraine 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\/27\/the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since 2014, the United States has\u2014through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative of the U.S. Department of Defense\u2014spent more than $19 billion in providing training and equipment to the Ukrainian militar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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\/856654"}],"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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856655,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856654\/revisions\/856655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}