{"id":17589,"date":"2015-06-25T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2015-06-25T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T05:45:04","slug":"are-we-moving-ever-closer-to-a-new-cold-war-or-has-it-actually-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"Are we moving ever closer to a new cold war or has it actually begun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between the West and Russia are growing week by week, most notably over the situation in Ukraine, sanctions and troop manoeuvres. So, is the West simply reacting to Putin&#8217;s growing aggression? Or is the West unnecessarily provoking Russia?<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-33237439\">a short but interesting piece<\/a> on the BBC web site which points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Russia has been conducting large-scale military manoeuvres involving tens of thousands of troops.\u00a0But by the end of this year, Nato will have conducted more than 300 combined military exercises, 100 more than last year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between the West and Russia are growing week by week, most notably over the situation in Ukraine, sanctions and troop manoeuvres. So, is the West simply reacting to Putin&#8217;s growing aggression? Or is the West unnecessarily provoking Russia? There is a short but interesting piece on the BBC web site which points out: &#8220;Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17593,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions\/17593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}