{"id":50532,"date":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50532"},"modified":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","slug":"is-war-coming-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50532","title":{"rendered":"Is war coming &#8230; really?"},"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 class=\"has-drop-cap\">You might think I am nuttier than a Payday bar for what I am about to say, but I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m just thinking out loud about what\u00a0<em>might<\/em>\u00a0be occurring behind closed doors in the White House and the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>My thought is this: Is it possible that President Biden is overstating the threat of war between Russia and Ukraine to purchase some more negotiating time with Vladimir Putin? Furthermore, would an agreement that Putin\u2019s armed forces are \u201cstanding down\u201d give the president a serious public-relations bump at a time when he needs it?<\/p>\n<p>We all know that politicians try to play every angle at their disposal. I don\u2019t doubt for a second that Joe Biden is capable of playing such an angle for his benefit.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe the president when his White House flack machine tells us the crux of what he told Putin in that hour-long phone call on Saturday, that the United States is prepared to inflict immediate and lasting economic harm to Russia if Putin sends in the troops to invade Ukraine. I also have difficulty accepting that Vladimir Putin is willing to accept that damage as the price of a battlefield conquest.<\/p>\n<p>OK, call me nuts. I\u2019m a big boy and I can take it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>You might think I am nuttier than a Payday bar for what I am about to say, but I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m just thinking out loud about what\u00a0might\u00a0be occurring behind closed doors in the White House and the Kremlin. My thought is this: Is it possible that President Biden is overstating the threat of war &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is war coming &#8230; really?<\/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":[5],"tags":[2505,4050,4998,5125],"class_list":["post-50532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50532","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=50532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50533,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50532\/revisions\/50533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}