{"id":83538,"date":"2022-01-03T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=83538"},"modified":"2022-01-03T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:25:56","slug":"why-ukraine-is-the-leading-issue-in-u-s-russia-strategic-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/blog\/2022\/01\/03\/why-ukraine-is-the-leading-issue-in-u-s-russia-strategic-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ukraine Is the Leading Issue in U.S.-Russia Strategic Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The torchlight march of neo-Nazi militia through Kiev on New Years Day exemplifies why Russian President Putin is demanding written, legally-binding security guarantees from the U.S. and NATO.\u00a0 These forces, which were at the heart of the February 2014 regime change coup, and proudly trace their lineage to Nazi SS collaborator Stepan Bandera, are calling for the liberation of Crimea from Russia, and crushing the movement for autonomy in eastern Ukraine.\u00a0 They represent a threat not only against Russia, but against Ukraine and NATO, as they are engaging in provocations against Russia.\u00a0 As JFK declared in his October 1962 speech announcing\u00a0a blockade of Cuba against Russian ships, no country can tolerate &#8222;in an area well-known to have a special and historic relationship to the United States&#8230;a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo&#8230;&#8220;\u00a0 The provocations against Russia, using Ukraine as a tool, is what Putin is reacting to today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Ukraine Is the Leading Issue in U.S.-Russia Strategic Tensions\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxgO405Tqmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The torchlight march of neo-Nazi militia through Kiev on New Years Day exemplifies why Russian President Putin is demanding written, legally-binding security guarantees from the U.S. and NATO.\u00a0 These forces, which were at the heart of the February 2014 regime change coup, and proudly trace their lineage to Nazi SS collaborator Stepan Bandera, are calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":83539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,524,629],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-83538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-updates-de","category-harley_schlanger_daily_update","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83550,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83538\/revisions\/83550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}