{"id":161875,"date":"2015-06-25T02:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=161875"},"modified":"2015-06-25T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T02:07:41","slug":"us-pushes-russia-towards-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-pushes-russia-towards-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US Pushes Russia Towards War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This columnist recently said that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/freedom-rider-russia-wins\">Russia Wins<\/a>\u201d in its handling of America\u2019s attempt to eviscerate its influence and its economy. At the time those words were written Secretary of State John Kerry met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. The meeting appeared to be an admission that the imperial power grab was not working out as Washington hoped. Among other things, Kerry was concerned that the Ukrainian tail was starting to wag the American dog.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a public statement he warned Ukrainian president Poroshenko, who threatened to retake Crimea and the Donbass. \u201cWe would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk [accords] in serious\u00a0jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be.\u201d Barack Obama promptly tossed Kerry under the bus upon his return home.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry\u2019s subordinate Victoria Nuland and the United Nations ambassador<a href=\"http:\/\/iipdigital.usembassy.gov\/st\/english\/texttrans\/2015\/06\/20150611316278.html\">Samantha Power<\/a> repeated the very words that Kerry warned against and contradicted everything he said. Power went to Kiev to sing the praises of the Ukrainians in person. She didn\u2019t have to mention Kerry by name, her presence alone said that he and any talk of diplomacy were on the outs. Of course the meeting between Kerry and Putin had to have been approved by president Obama, but just one month later it appears to have been a figment of the world\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>Russia has every right to arm its own territory.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the battle to stay on top of the world and remain in control of it, Washington inevitably lurches back and forth in its policy decision making. Now they and their scribes in corporate media have settled back into comfortable territory, simultaneously vilifying the Russian government and endlessly repeating anti-Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/06\/24\/us-pushes-russia-towards-war\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This columnist recently said that \u201cRussia Wins\u201d in its handling of America\u2019s attempt to eviscerate its influence and its economy. At the time those words were written Secretary of State John Kerry met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. The meeting appeared to be an admission that the imperial power grab was not working out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-161875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161875","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=161875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}