{"id":6284,"date":"2014-08-28T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2014-08-28T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T17:13:47","slug":"open-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6284","title":{"rendered":"Open aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no other way of describing it: Russia now engages in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/28\/world\/europe\/ukraine-crisis\/index.html\">open aggression<\/a> against Ukraine.\u00a0Whatever one&#8217;s thoughts are about Ukrainian nationalism or the wisdom of breaking up the territory of the old Russian empire into semi-viable successor states, such open aggression should be condemned without reservation. Russia being a nuclear superpower, Puting can do whatever the hell he wants, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that we should\u00a0stay silent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natolive\/news_112103.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6285\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140828_140828a-001-small.jpg\" alt=\"NATO releases satellite imagery showing Russian combat troops inside Ukraine\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140828_140828a-001-small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140828_140828a-001-small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the NATO Web site where these pictures were published is intermittently unavailable. Given this morning&#8217;s breaking news about coordinated cyberattacks originating from Russia and aimed at US banks, I would not be surprised if NATO&#8217;s Web site itself were itself subjected to something like a DoS attack by Russia, which might explain the intermittent outages.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6284' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no other way of describing it: Russia now engages in open aggression against Ukraine.\u00a0Whatever one&#8217;s thoughts are about Ukrainian nationalism or the wisdom of breaking up the territory of the old Russian empire into semi-viable successor states, such open aggression should be condemned without reservation. Russia being a nuclear superpower, Puting can do <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6284' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}