{"id":174758,"date":"2015-08-21T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=174758"},"modified":"2015-08-21T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:11:47","slug":"kissinger-urges-us-treat-russia-great-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/kissinger-urges-us-treat-russia-great-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger urges US to treat Russia as \u2018great power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the United States to treat Russia as a \u201cgreat power\u201d and stop making efforts to break it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreaking Russia has become an objective [for US officials] the long-range purpose should be to integrate it,\u201d the 92-year-old said during an interview with <em>The National Interest<\/em> published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf we treat Russia seriously as a great power, we need at an early stage to determine whether their concerns can be reconciled with our necessities,\u201d he told the policy magazine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated over a number of issues, particularly over the unending crisis in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Washington accuses Moscow of arming and supporting pro-Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, however, has denounced the &#8220;groundless\u201d accusations and blamed the United States for orchestrating a coup against the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the country\u2019s democratically-elected president.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has described Washington\u2019s foreign policy on Ukraine as \u201caggressive\u201d, saying the policy \u201cfails to meet present-day realities and demonstrates that the United States actually wants to dominate the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his interview, Kissinger accused the American and European governments for failing to recognize the historical context in which the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/21\/425670\/Kissinger-Russia-great-power-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the United States to treat Russia as a \u201cgreat power\u201d and stop making efforts to break it. \u201cBreaking Russia has become an objective [for US officials] the long-range purpose should be to integrate it,\u201d the 92-year-old said during an interview with The National Interest published on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174758","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=174758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}