{"id":196144,"date":"2008-05-21T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/russia-protests-outside-military-aid-to-georgia\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T10:23:00","slug":"russia-protests-outside-military-aid-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/21\/russia-protests-outside-military-aid-to-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Protests Outside Military Aid to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The back story is in 2002, the US started suppling military aid to Georgia to fight &#8220;al Queida backed forces&#8221;, but these forces never existed, and the aid continues.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians, quite reasonably, see this as a provocation directed at them. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/army\/Russia_urges_NATO_to_help_stop_military_build-up_in_Georgia110015784.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/05\/russia-tallies.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The arming of Georgia, like the westward expansion of NATO, is seen by the Russian government as a real threat to their own security, particularly given the guarantees made in the early 1990s that there <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/good-commentary-on-russia.html\">would be no westward expansion of NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I think that part of this agenda is a desire by Republicans to recreate the Slavic menace for political advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back story is in 2002, the US started suppling military aid to Georgia to fight &#8220;al Queida backed forces&#8221;, but these forces never existed, and the aid continues. The Russians, quite reasonably, see this as a provocation directed at them. (see here and here) The arming of Georgia, like the westward expansion of NATO, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1040,1006,1043,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-soviet-union","category-military","category-nato","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196144"}],"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=196144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}