{"id":6172,"date":"2014-07-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/18\/u-s-russia-dispute-gets-even-more-tense\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:00:00","slug":"u-s-russia-dispute-gets-even-more-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6172","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russia dispute gets even more tense"},"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>If you thought the U.S.-Russia tensions couldn&#8217;t worsen short of an actual shooting war between the nations, well, you thought wrong.<\/p>\n<p>They just did on the basis of what appears to be the deliberate downing of a commercial airline carrying more than 300 passengers and crew, including one American.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.msn.com\/world\/obama-condemns-russia-after-airliner-downed-in-ukraine<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 has been shot down in eastern Ukraine, allegedly by separatists allied with Russia, which seems to want to re-annex the former Soviet republic.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has condemned the Russians for supporting the separatists and it is now believed he is considering even more sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, critics will contend the president should have prevented the shoot-down. For now, I&#8217;ll settle for encouraging the administration &#8212; and I would implore Congress to back Obama on this one &#8212; to tighten the screws even more against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians are playing a dangerous game with their support of these separatists &#8212; who now have demonstrated that they will go to any lengths to make some political point.<\/p>\n<p>Someone will have to explain to me, though, what on Earth was to be gained by shooting down a commercial jetliner with innocent and unsuspecting civilians aboard.<\/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>If you thought the U.S.-Russia tensions couldn&#8217;t worsen short of an actual shooting war between the nations, well, you thought wrong. They just did on the basis of what appears to be the deliberate downing of a commercial airline carrying more than 300 passengers and crew, including one American. http:\/\/news.msn.com\/world\/obama-condemns-russia-after-airliner-downed-in-ukraine A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S.-Russia dispute gets even more tense<\/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":[540,701,1112,2866,4050,4999],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-boeing-777","tag-congress","tag-malaysia-airlines","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","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=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}