{"id":35640,"date":"2022-04-04T18:46:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35640"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:46:27","slug":"will-there-be-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/04\/will-there-be-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Will There Be More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This strikes me (and <em><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/4\/1\/2089539\/-Ukraine-update-We-don-t-recognize-Crimea-or-Donbas-We-won-t-help-Russia-avoid-US-and-EU-sanctions?detail=emaildkre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Sumner<\/a>) as a big deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRussia wants us to support them but we don\u2019t recognize Crimea, or Donbas. Yes, we are in a union with Russia but it doesn\u2019t apply to this situation. We won\u2019t help Russia avoid US and EU sanctions.\u201d &#8211; Deputy  chair of the presidential administration in Kazakhstan. This is huge.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bakhti Nishanov (@b_nishanov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b_nishanov\/status\/1509913543507947526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the old days, such a declaration by a member of the Soviet Union would have resulted in the removal and imprisonment of the deputy chair, and probable execution, by agents of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming it&#8217;s authentic, the fact that a government official is willing to tell Putin off suggests that Putin&#8217;s power is strictly limited, even in the horrific face of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-04-04-22\/h_962b679d8247d848090323ceccf9ba7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliberately horrific carnage<\/a> in Ukraine. It may indicate a complete withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine is imminent &#8211; whether Putin orders it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strikes me (and Daily Kos&#8216; Mark Sumner) as a big deal: \u201cRussia wants us to support them but we don\u2019t recognize Crimea, or Donbas. Yes, we are in a union with Russia but it doesn\u2019t apply to this situation. We won\u2019t help Russia avoid US and EU sanctions.\u201d &#8211; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/04\/will-there-be-more\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35640","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\/35640","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=35640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35641,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35640\/revisions\/35641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}