{"id":56073,"date":"2014-10-28T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56073"},"modified":"2014-10-28T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T14:31:41","slug":"the-new-cold-war-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56073","title":{"rendered":"The New Cold War in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back during the good old days, the Bush years, the media and the Democrats accused him of longing for the old Cold War with the Soviets when  he planned to put a missile defense system in the New Europe? Well, I do. But, according to the US Embassy folks, the Cold War is back without any help from Mr Bush, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-embassy-moscow-faces-cold-war-era-harassment-122600962--abc-news-topstories.html\">ABC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of incidents targeting American diplomats in Moscow has increased in recent years to levels not seen since the Cold War, officials said. Taken together, they paint an escalating pattern of intimidation and harassment that is believed to be led by Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Services (FSB), a successor to the Soviet KGB.<\/p>\n<p>The trend has alarmed officials back in Washington, who have complained about the treatment to Russian officials at the highest levels, including President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the level of harassment increased sharply this year as U.S.-Russia relations plunged to their lowest level in decades amid the Ukraine crisis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this administration can negotiate away the freedoms of the people of eastern Europe and volunteer our troops to build a wall of some sort, dividing Europe into zones of influence or something. That would put an end to all of this, maybe they could meet somewhere with Putin, Yalta perhaps, to decide how to divide up Europe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back during the good old days, the Bush years, the media and the Democrats accused &hellip; <a title=\"The New Cold War in Moscow\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56073\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Cold War in Moscow<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56073","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}