{"id":194691,"date":"2008-08-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/26\/russia-recognizes-south-ossetia-and-abkhazia\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:00:00","slug":"russia-recognizes-south-ossetia-and-abkhazia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/26\/russia-recognizes-south-ossetia-and-abkhazia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Recognizes South Ossetia and Abkhazia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was inevitable once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/27\/world\/europe\/27russia.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">Georgia invaded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been waiting for the opportunity for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that unless Georgia renounces all claims to the provinces now, they are ineligible for NATO membership, because the process requires undisputed borders.<\/p>\n<p>Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are doubtless happy, because they think this makes a good political club domestically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was inevitable once Georgia invaded. Russia has been waiting for the opportunity for quite some time. I would note that unless Georgia renounces all claims to the provinces now, they are ineligible for NATO membership, because the process requires undisputed borders. Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 are doubtless happy, because they think this makes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964,1040,1043,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-nato","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194691"}],"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=194691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}