{"id":179168,"date":"2018-04-27T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/27\/not-learning-the-lessons-of-cuba\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:58:00","slug":"not-learning-the-lessons-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/27\/not-learning-the-lessons-of-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Learning the Lessons of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise, our policy of sanctions against Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/sanctions-syria-hit-home-in-russia-but-people-arent-turning-against-putin\/2018\/04\/26\/1dc10506-463b-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html?noredirect=on\">does not hurt Putin&#8217;s political standing among Russian citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, it improves his political positions, because hardships can be blamed on an aggressively overbearing United States.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this sh%$ kept the Castros in power for 60 years (and counting) in Russia, why should we expect anything different this time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise, our policy of sanctions against Russia does not hurt Putin&#8217;s political standing among Russian citizens. If anything, it improves his political positions, because hardships can be blamed on an aggressively overbearing United States. Seriously, this sh%$ kept the Castros in power for 60 years (and counting) in Russia, why should we expect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,394,578,417,455],"class_list":["post-179168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-incompetence","tag-international-commerce","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}