{"id":1519,"date":"2004-09-09T23:09:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/09\/dont_appease_putin"},"modified":"2004-09-09T23:09:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T22:09:52","slug":"dont_appease_putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/09\/dont_appease_putin","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t appease Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Heffer of the London <i>Daily Mail<\/i> has written a piece in this week&#8217;s <i>Spectator<\/i>, in which he calls for western politicians not to play into the hands of the Putin r&eacute;gime, which besides its brutality in Chechenya, is trying to destablise the Baltic region.  (The bit about the Baltic is frightening for western Europeans &#8211; a lot of people think Chechenya is &#8220;rightfully&#8221; part of Russia, but a lot of Russians, particularly higher up, probably think Poland and Ukraine are still rightfully theirs.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article.php?table=old&#038;section=current&#038;issue=2004-09-11&#038;id=4986\">Why We Must Not Appease the Kremlin<\/a> (free registration required)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Heffer of the London Daily Mail has written a piece in this week&#8217;s Spectator, in which he calls for western politicians not to play into the hands of the Putin r&eacute;gime, which besides&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}