{"id":26048,"date":"2011-08-01T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26048"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T00:55:00","slug":"damning-with-faint-praise-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26048","title":{"rendered":"Damning With Faint Praise&#8230; Or Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While not exactly new or directly probative it does offer some perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/01\/us-russia-putin-usa-idUSTRE77052R20110801\" target=\"_blank\">We are parasites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means &#8220;like a parasite&#8221; on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read this bit several times today.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker? The dance in DC pleases him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deal initially soothed anxieties and led Russian stocks to jump to three-month highs, but jitters remained over the possibility of a credit downgrade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank god,&#8221; Putin said, &#8220;that they had enough common sense and responsibility to make a balanced decision.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin thanks God.<\/p>\n<p>I feel much better now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not exactly new or directly probative it does offer some perspective. We are parasites: Russian &hellip; <a title=\"Damning With Faint Praise&#8230; Or Something?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26048\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Damning With Faint Praise&#8230; Or Something?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-foreign-policy","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}