{"id":917007,"date":"2022-12-12T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=268135"},"modified":"2022-12-12T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:00:20","slug":"russians-and-the-ukraine-war-few-think-it-was-a-good-idea-fewer-want-it-to-end-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/12\/russians-and-the-ukraine-war-few-think-it-was-a-good-idea-fewer-want-it-to-end-in-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians and the Ukraine War: Few Think It Was a Good Idea, Fewer Want It to End in Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe the Ukraine war media coverage is worse than in any other war I have witnessed because, for Europeans, fighting is closer to home and emotions are more fully engaged. Demonisation of Russia is total, which may be deserved, but is not a good approach for finding out what is really happening. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/12\/russians-and-the-ukraine-war-few-think-it-was-a-good-idea-fewer-want-it-to-end-in-defeat\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/12\/russians-and-the-ukraine-war-few-think-it-was-a-good-idea-fewer-want-it-to-end-in-defeat\/\">Russians and the Ukraine War: Few Think It Was a Good Idea, Fewer Want It to End in Defeat<\/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\/12\/12\/russians-and-the-ukraine-war-few-think-it-was-a-good-idea-fewer-want-it-to-end-in-defeat\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe the Ukraine war media coverage is worse than in any other war I have witnessed because, for Europeans, fighting is closer to home and emotions are more fully engaged. Demonisation of Russia is total, which may be deserved, but is not a good a&#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\/917007"}],"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=917007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917008,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917007\/revisions\/917008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}