{"id":62,"date":"2017-02-16T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/?p=62"},"modified":"2017-03-16T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:25:03","slug":"putins-chess-game-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/putins-chess-game-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s chess game is working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article in <a style=\"color: red; font-size: larger; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: none; box-shadow: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/\">Time<\/a> magazine has got it dead right:<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"box-shadow: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4672985\/moscow-russia-us-politics\/\">As Moscow Advances, U.S. Allies Look Warily to Trump for Clarity<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Putin is playing a chess game with his pawns and knights while distracting the West. He has no interest in <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and Syria\">ISIS<\/abbr>, Syrian rebels, or the Crimean people but has his eyes on Europe. He wants to break the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr> and he is achieving his goal.<\/p>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s aims are the ports of Crimea and Syria with access to the Mediterranean and he is now focusing also on Montenegro. He has stimulated the rise of nationalism in the UK, and the USA and soon to follow will be France (Marine Le Pen has promised to leave <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr>), the Netherlands, and Germany. Similarly, influencing Eastern European countries such as Hungary, Bulgaria, and other former Eastern Bloc &#8220;members&#8221;. He continues to test <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr> resolve with forays into Estonia and Eastern Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Time magazine has got it dead right: As Moscow Advances, U.S. Allies Look Warily to Trump for Clarity Putin is playing a chess game with his pawns and knights while distracting the West. He has no interest in ISIS, Syrian rebels, or the Crimean people but has his eyes on Europe. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/putins-chess-game-is-working\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putin&#8217;s chess game is working&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,28],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-russia","category-usa","tag-eu","tag-putin"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-a-v-e.org\/washingtonnewstimes.com\/opinion\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}