{"id":40286,"date":"2014-03-12T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40286"},"modified":"2014-03-13T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:27:16","slug":"acting-ukrainian-president-we-wont-stop-crimean-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40286","title":{"rendered":"Acting Ukrainian President:  We Won&#8217;t Stop Crimean Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Acting President of the Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, has stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ukraine-wont-intervene-crimea-president-224530588.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7lkh9T9yEAWO_QtDMD\">the Ukraine will not use military force<\/a> to block Crimean secession.\u00a0 The ostensible reason?\u00a0 Doing so &#8220;would expose the eastern border and Ukraine would not be protected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, duh.\u00a0 Ya think?<\/p>\n<p>As one might expect, Turchynov also cast aspersions on the upcoming Crimean referendum, stating: &#8220;What they call the referendum will not happen in Crimea but in the offices of the Kremlin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dunno about that, Mr. Acting President.\u00a0 Since the majority of the Crimea&#8217;s population (58+%) is ethnically Russian and less than 25% is ethnically Ukrainian, I kinda think a completely fair referendum in the Crimea on reuniting with Russia has a damn good chance of passing &#8211; and likely by a fairly large margin.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice to see that someone involved recognizes reality when they see it.\u00a0 In this case, I&#8217;m not convinced the current US Administration yet does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acting President of the Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov, has stated that the Ukraine will not use &hellip; <a title=\"Acting Ukrainian President:  We Won&#8217;t Stop Crimean Secession\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40286\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acting Ukrainian President:  We Won&#8217;t Stop Crimean Secession<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}