{"id":1537,"date":"2016-04-28T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:25:18","slug":"arms-race-chess-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Arm’s Race Chess Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just reading part of the book:\u00a0 Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II<\/em> by Alvin Rubinstein.\u00a0 The author suggests that: “…Soviet disarmament policy reveals that Moscow has exploited the theme as a means of compensating for military and technological inferiority.”<\/strong>\u00a0 Well okay, here’s a different sort of geopolitical chess strategy in Russian\/American foreign policy:\u00a0 Why not slow<\/em> the “Arm’s Race” on our end?\u00a0 This might, in turn, slow it on their end.\u00a0 What’s more, then we take some of the considerable savings from this slowing and help the Russian people at large, many of whom are currently struggling financially with their relatively\u00a0 recent transition to a free market economy.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> I am not suggesting reducing sanctions on the Russian government for it’s unprovoked incursion into the Ukraine.\u00a0 But rather, I’m suggesting finding, and using, safe humanitarian-aid conduits into that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just reading part of the book:\u00a0 Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II by Alvin Rubinstein.\u00a0 The author suggests that: “…Soviet disarmament policy reveals that Moscow has exploited the theme as a means of compensating for military and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}