{"id":362,"date":"2014-03-26T05:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/africa\/gates-russia-is-building-new-bloc-us-and-europe-must-mobilize\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T05:41:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T05:41:36","slug":"gates-russia-is-building-new-bloc-us-and-europe-must-mobilize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/africa\/gates-russia-is-building-new-bloc-us-and-europe-must-mobilize\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates: Russia is building new bloc; U.S. and Europe must mobilize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is part of a broader push to create a pro-Russia bloc and called for a stronger U.S.-European strategy of economic sanctions with military backup.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other aggressors will disrupt stability, Gates said in a Denver Post interview.<\/p>\n<p>“We need to see this as not just a singular act by Putin but rather as a continued effort to create a pro-Russia bloc of states on Russia’s periphery,” Gates said. “We don’t need to demonize Putin. We need to look clearly at what he has done \u2014 both inside Russia and with respect to his neighbors.”<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/environment\/ci_25420289\/gates-russia-is-building-new-bloc-u-s\" title=\"Read More\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is part of a broader push to create a pro-Russia bloc and called for a stronger U.S.-European strategy of economic sanctions with military backup. Otherwise, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other aggressors will disrupt stability, Gates said in a Denver Post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,61,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-international","category-middle-east","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}