{"id":1735,"date":"2009-09-17T06:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2009-09-17T06:46:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T13:46:23","slug":"usa-blinks-putin-winks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/usa-blinks-putin-winks\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Blinks; Putin Winks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of that title when this photo greeted me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\">Drudge<\/a> a few minutes ago:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/putin_winks.jpg\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin wins, but at whom and why?\" title=\"Putin winks. Poland sinks. Czech sinks.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s with that?!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2009\/09\/17\/scrapping-the-missile-shield\/comment-page-1\/#comment-468379'>Scrapping the missile shield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration had said that the shield was intended to protect Eastern Europe from the threat of a nuclear Iran, but Russia bristled at the idea of U.S. interceptor rockets being set up near its border.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe. But probably not.<\/p>\n<p>But to whom <i>is<\/i> the Russian Premier or President or Prime Minister winking?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of that title when this photo greeted me at Drudge a few minutes ago: What&#8217;s with that?! This? Scrapping the missile shield The Bush administration had said that the shield was intended to protect Eastern Europe from the threat of a nuclear Iran, but Russia bristled at the idea of U.S. interceptor rockets &#8230; <a title=\"USA Blinks; Putin Winks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/usa-blinks-putin-winks\/\" aria-label=\"More on USA Blinks; Putin Winks\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[914,363,584],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-rZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}