{"id":50557,"date":"2022-02-15T01:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50557"},"modified":"2022-02-15T01:36:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T01:36:45","slug":"stand-down-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50557","title":{"rendered":"Stand-down possible?"},"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\">The more I think about a notion I floated the other day about the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the less goofy it is sounding to me as I roll it around my noggin.<\/p>\n<p>I tossed the idea out there that President Biden might be inflating the imminent danger of a Russian invasion of Ukraine as a way to boost his sagging public opinion poll numbers. In other words, the door to a diplomatic solution might be closer than we are being led to believe it is.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re getting reports from Paris, Moscow, Kyiv and Washington that diplomatic pressure is mounting against Russian strongman\/goon Vladimir Putin. The pressure is reiterating a message President Biden delivered to him during their hour-long phone conversation over this past weekend, that any attack by Russian armed forces against Ukraine would bring swift and destructive economic actions against the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Putin just might be listening to what he\u2019s being told and \u2014 this is still a stretch, I know \u2014 might be willing to flinch at the thought of subjecting his people to untold economic suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is a former spy. He also is now a politician. Putin must know that a politician cannot subject his constituents to avoidable misery.<\/p>\n<p>We have plenty of diplomatic leverage we can use against the Russian thug.<\/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>The more I think about a notion I floated the other day about the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the less goofy it is sounding to me as I roll it around my noggin. I tossed the idea out there that President Biden might be inflating the imminent danger of a Russian invasion of Ukraine as a way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stand-down possible?<\/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":[2505,7018,4050,4998],"class_list":["post-50557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557","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=50557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50558,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions\/50558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}