{"id":17731,"date":"2022-02-18T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17731"},"modified":"2022-02-18T21:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:43:04","slug":"nato-expansion-threat-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17731","title":{"rendered":"NATO expansion threat to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That big orange stripe down the center of Europe leaves little buffer for Russia.\u00a0 Or Putin.\u00a0 Would be interesting to know the average man-on-a-Russian-street.\u00a0 Which doesn&#8217;t mean he or they can just deny Ukraine NATO membership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17732 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997-768x1036.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/map-nato-expansion-since-1997-675x911.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That big orange stripe down the center of Europe leaves little buffer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1043,140,402,474,56],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-nato","tag-paul","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}