{"id":195514,"date":"2008-07-03T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/03\/russias-medvedev-says-us-basically-in-depression\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:29:00","slug":"russias-medvedev-says-us-basically-in-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/03\/russias-medvedev-says-us-basically-in-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Medvedev Says US &#8220;Basically in Depression&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that his assesment may be <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/03\/europe\/03medvedev.php\">closer to reality than most of us would like to think<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia&#8217;s new president, Dmitri Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that an America in &#8220;essentially a depression&#8221; was in no position to lecture other countries on how to conduct their affairs.<\/p>\n<p>With soaring oil revenues bolstering the Russian economy and Kremlin confidence, Medvedev brushed aside American criticism of his country&#8217;s record on democracy and human rights. He also said that a revived Russia had a right to assume a larger role in a world economic system that he suggested should no longer be dominated by the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If, in 2001, he had said this, most of the world would have been stunned and appalled at the concept that US hegemony is failing.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I think that there are a lot of silent nods and smiles, because the Europeans understand what it means in a monopolar world if the single hyper-power is run by a group of madmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that his assesment may be closer to reality than most of us would like to think: Russia&#8217;s new president, Dmitri Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that an America in &#8220;essentially a depression&#8221; was in no position to lecture other countries on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195514"}],"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=195514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}