{"id":154663,"date":"2015-05-27T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154663"},"modified":"2015-05-27T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T21:09:13","slug":"us-back-reconsider-ukraine-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-back-reconsider-ukraine-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"US should \u2018back up, reconsider\u2019 Ukraine stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The US should \u201creconsider\u201d its policies towards the situation in Ukraine, says a professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States needs to back up and reconsider its stance,\u201d James Henry Fetzer told Press TV on Tuesday, calling efforts aimed at \u201cprovoking matters\u201d in Ukraine \u201cdisgraceful\u201d.Fetzer was commenting on earlier remarks by US President Barack Obama, accusing Russia of adopting an \u201cincreasingly aggressive posture\u201d over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Fetzer called the remarks \u201cmisleading\u201d, saying they showed \u201cthe height of hypocrisy\u201d in the US political system.<\/p>\n<p>The US \u201cefforts to convert Ukraine into a Western nation or NATO nation are gross violation of the agreement\u201d between the Soviet Union and the US back in 1991, he said, suggesting the stance was against the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/26\/413000\/russia-ukraine-barack-obama-nato-prorussia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US should \u201creconsider\u201d its policies towards the situation in Ukraine, says a professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota. \u201cThe United States needs to back up and reconsider its stance,\u201d James Henry Fetzer told Press TV on Tuesday, calling efforts aimed at \u201cprovoking matters\u201d in Ukraine \u201cdisgraceful\u201d.Fetzer was commenting on earlier remarks by US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}