{"id":50651,"date":"2022-02-22T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50651"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:49:22","slug":"putins-launches-frightening-power-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50651","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s launches frightening power quest"},"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\">Vladimir Putin\u2019s lust for power is an astonishing sight to behold as the world awaits what appears to be coming: a violent invasion of a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian dictator is concocting excuses to invade Ukraine, a nation that once belonged to the Soviet Union\u2019s empire of states, but which has established itself as an important independent nation on the western border of what is now the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Putin wants it back. He appears set to send in the armed forces on a beeline to Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital city. He believes he will take control of the city of 2.8 million residents in short order. What happens next is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has done a good job of gathering allied support in leveling stern and damaging economic sanctions against Putin and the Russian economy. Germany has announced plans to shut down a natural gas pipeline from Russia, which is going to inflict serious harm to Putin\u2019s nation. Biden is set to lower the economic boom on Russia as well, now that the window for a diplomatic solution appears to be closing rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, though, we have Vladimir Putin not giving a damn about what all this means to his people, to his standing among world leaders or to his legacy. He\u2019s a bad dude to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s history of evil intent is clear, as he once led the Soviet spy agency, the KGB, during the Cold War. Thus, reports that he plans to enact some sort of \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in Ukraine if his troops take over the country should not surprise anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I know there isn\u2019t a damn thing on Earth I can do about any of this, other than to express my extreme displeasure over the danger that this tinhorn despot is able to place on the world we all inhabit.<\/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>Vladimir Putin\u2019s lust for power is an astonishing sight to behold as the world awaits what appears to be coming: a violent invasion of a sovereign nation. The Russian dictator is concocting excuses to invade Ukraine, a nation that once belonged to the Soviet Union\u2019s empire of states, but which has established itself as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putin&#8217;s launches frightening power quest<\/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":[2675,7018,4998,6681],"class_list":["post-50651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-kgb","tag-putin","tag-ukraine","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50651","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=50651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50652,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50651\/revisions\/50652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}