{"id":950174,"date":"2023-01-09T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=270758"},"modified":"2023-01-09T06:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:25:16","slug":"the-first-us-onslaught-to-weaken-post-cold-war-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/09\/the-first-us-onslaught-to-weaken-post-cold-war-russia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The First US Onslaught to \u201cWeaken\u201d Post-Cold War Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even Before NATO Expansion, the West Sought to Strangle Russia Economically. The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO. It took the form of a U.S.-induced economic depression in Russia that was deeper and more disastrous than the Great Depression that devastated  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/09\/the-first-us-onslaught-to-weaken-post-cold-war-russia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/09\/the-first-us-onslaught-to-weaken-post-cold-war-russia\/\">The First US Onslaught to \u201cWeaken\u201d Post-Cold War 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\/2023\/01\/09\/the-first-us-onslaught-to-weaken-post-cold-war-russia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Before NATO Expansion, the West Sought to Strangle Russia Economically. The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO. It took the form of a U.S.-induced economic depression in Rus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"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\/950174"}],"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\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950175,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950174\/revisions\/950175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}