{"id":54,"date":"2017-04-03T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-04-04T02:22:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T02:22:49","slug":"the-outlook-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"The Outlook for Russia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-04-03\/putin-is-up-but-russians-are-feeling-down\">is not bright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone else who values our democratic institutions I am eager for strong measures to prevent Russian intervention in our elections. (It is reported that many people, most of whom identify as Republicans, express indifference concerning Russian meddling, but I find it hard to believe that this is literally so.) And I feel Putin&#8217;s brutal aggression against neighbors and the domestic opposition to be alarming and threatening.<\/p>\n<p>But the awfulness of\u00a0the current r\u00e9gime aside, I wish only the best for Russia and her people, and I see this as no more than\u00a0sensible. There truly is no essential reason for conflict between the United States and Russia and a prosperous and stable Russia is really in our interest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-04-03\/putin-is-up-but-russians-are-feeling-down\">This article&#8217;s<\/a> further confirmation that Russia is caught in an economic trap she shows no signs of getting out of is anything but good news.<\/p>\n<p>None of the preceding four U.S. administrations has done well on policy toward Russia, and I feel a lot of anxiety about what this one is likely to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is not bright. Like everyone else who values our democratic institutions I am eager for strong measures to prevent Russian intervention in our elections. (It is reported that many people, most of whom identify as Republicans, express indifference concerning Russian meddling, but I find it hard to believe that this is literally so.) And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.williamdoneil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}