{"id":180952,"date":"2016-11-14T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/14\/and-europe-goes-even-more-pear-shaped\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:00:00","slug":"and-europe-goes-even-more-pear-shaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/14\/and-europe-goes-even-more-pear-shaped\/","title":{"rendered":"And Europe Goes Even More Pear Shaped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bulgaria-election-idUSKBN13801Q\">Bulgaria<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/moldova-elects-pro-russian-igor-dodon-as-president\/\">Moldova<\/a> have elected pro-Russian Presidents.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Bulgaria, this has brought down the current Prime Minister, and as Bulgaria is an EU member, (and has a pro Russian history) it makes the extension of sanctions against Russia that much less likely.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Nuland&#8217;s gift in the Ukraine just keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In both Bulgaria and Moldova have elected pro-Russian Presidents. In the case of Bulgaria, this has brought down the current Prime Minister, and as Bulgaria is an EU member, (and has a pro Russian history) it makes the extension of sanctions against Russia that much less likely. Victoria Nuland&#8217;s gift in the Ukraine just keeps &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":[808,865,888,768,809],"class_list":["post-180952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-fail","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180952"}],"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=180952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}