{"id":4897,"date":"2014-03-02T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2021-03-21T02:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T02:18:42","slug":"russians-might-pull-their-envoy-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Russians might pull their envoy to the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>So, let me see if I have this correct.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian insurgents have driven that country&#8217;s president out; he&#8217;s holed up in Moscow; Russia is threatening to intervene in another sovereign country&#8217;s affairs; Russia is mobilizing its armed forces; President Obama has warned Russia that any outside interference in Ukrainian affairs will have &#8220;costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the Russians are threatening to pull their ambassador to the United States?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/03\/01\/russia-moves-to-bring-back-ambassador-from-us-amid-ukraine-crisis\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/03\/01\/russia-moves-to-bring-back-ambassador-from-us-amid-ukraine-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t the United States pull <em>its<\/em> ambassador to Moscow?<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State John Kerry has said U.S.-Russia relations are at stake. It&#8217;s not entirely clear what precisely he means by the stakes involved.<\/p>\n<p>There cannot be a severing of diplomatic relations between the nations. This gamesmanship over who pulls their ambassador first, though, cannot continue.<\/p>\n<p>The best solution from the U.S. and European standpoint would be for the Russians to butt out, to let Ukraine decide who will govern the country without outside interference.<\/p>\n<p>If the Russians are intent on honoring international law, then they&#8217;ll back off and let their neighbors in Ukraine settle this dispute on their own.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, let me see if I have this correct. Ukrainian insurgents have driven that country&#8217;s president out; he&#8217;s holed up in Moscow; Russia is threatening to intervene in another sovereign country&#8217;s affairs; Russia is mobilizing its armed forces; President Obama has warned Russia that any outside interference in Ukrainian affairs will have &#8220;costs.&#8221; And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russians might pull their envoy to the U.S.?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2539,4050,4998,5125],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-kerry","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47144,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/47144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}