{"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&#8217;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>&#8220;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&#8217;s periphery,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;We don&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}