{"id":204587,"date":"2022-02-07T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=204587"},"modified":"2022-02-05T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T06:17:00","slug":"russia-ukraine-standoff-putin-says-us-could-drag-moscow-into-war-with-aim-to-impose-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/russia-ukraine-standoff-putin-says-us-could-drag-moscow-into-war-with-aim-to-impose-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1 Feb 2022 &#8211; <em>The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the United States and other Western countries could drag with Moscow into a military conflict with the aim to impose sanctions on Russia. But he added he hoped dialogue on Ukraine would continue in order to avoid &#8220;negative scenarios,&#8221; including war. In his first direct public comments on the Ukraine crisis in nearly six weeks, a defiant Putin showed no sign of backing down from security demands that Western countries have called non-starters and a possible excuse to launch an invasion. He said the U.S. and the West ignored Russia\u2019s security concerns with the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7cbwUQALrI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Feb 2022 &#8211; The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2197,1035,253,278,923,961,70,118],"class_list":["post-204587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-biden","tag-eastern-europe","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}