{"id":971808,"date":"2023-01-27T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=272757"},"modified":"2023-01-27T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:56:48","slug":"making-no-sense-of-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/27\/making-no-sense-of-the-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Making (No) Sense of the Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a review of the new book War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies. Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan caf\u00e9 with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the state of the Left and how so many ostensible leftists had  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/27\/making-no-sense-of-the-ukraine-war\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/27\/making-no-sense-of-the-ukraine-war\/\">Making (No) Sense of the Ukraine War<\/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\/27\/making-no-sense-of-the-ukraine-war\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a review of the new book War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies. Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan caf\u00e9 with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the stat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"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\/971808"}],"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\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971809,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971808\/revisions\/971809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}