{"id":27780,"date":"2020-02-28T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27780"},"modified":"2020-02-28T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:40:28","slug":"the-potholes-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/28\/the-potholes-of-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potholes Of Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Syrian tragedy has its grimly amusing moments in the diplomatic sphere. Idlib Province is in Syria, and it’s where Turkey incursed after the United States withdrew last year. From<\/a> AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The Turkish press has reported that Turkey asked the\u00a0United States<\/a>\u00a0for aerial support over Idlib and is seeking Patriot missiles for air defense. This is another in a string of unprecedented inconsistencies in Turkish foreign and security policy displayed recently and becoming almost routine. It was the Turkish leadership\u2019s resolve to acquire Russian S-400 air defense missiles that soured the relationship with the United States last year. Now, after paying $2.5 billion to Russia for the weapons, Ankara is seeking\u00a0American Patriots<\/a>\u00a0against Russia\u2019s air support for Syrian regime forces advancing on Syrian territory in Idlib.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who ya gonna call? Well, whoever pissed me off last week, because now I’m mad at the other guys.\u00a0<\/em>I can see Bill Murray in a hazmat suit delivering that line.<\/p>\n

Middle East diplomacy is quite the confusing mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Syrian tragedy has its grimly amusing moments in the diplomatic sphere. Idlib Province is in Syria, and it’s where Turkey incursed after the United States withdrew last year. From AL Monitor: The Turkish press has reported that Turkey asked the\u00a0United States\u00a0for aerial support over Idlib and is seeking Patriot \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27782,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780\/revisions\/27782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}