{"id":524,"date":"2016-10-12T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:18:18","slug":"the-great-game-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"The Great Game continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve told my son numerous times that he can’t imagine the irrational paranoia of the Cold War, when anti-war protesters were routinely told to „go back to Russia“\u00a0for criticizing anything from the MX missile to funding the contras<\/em>. I remember during the Carter administration my father saw US and Soviet posturing as a continuation of the Great Game. Until recently labeling anyone to the left of\u00a0Zbigniew Brzezinski a fellow traveler seemed anachronistic. But not today! Now one can apparently be considered a „Putinite“ for criticizing Hillary Clinton’s devotion to transparency. Perhaps I’m only feeling nostalgic, but somehow this turn of events is comforting. Continuity in the face of change reassures, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve told my son numerous times that he can’t imagine the irrational paranoia of the Cold War, when anti-war protesters were routinely told to „go back to Russia“\u00a0for criticizing anything from the MX missile to funding the contras. I remember … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}