{"id":43241,"date":"2014-06-24T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/youll-forgive-me-if-im-not-reassured.html"},"modified":"2014-06-26T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:00:20","slug":"youll-forgive-me-if-im-not-reassured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/youll-forgive-me-if-im-not-reassured.html","title":{"rendered":"You'll forgive me if I'm not reassured"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have the sense that Putin's use of the Duma is akin to use of the use of the Supreme Soviet by his Communist forbears — a convenient and symbolic gesture. \u00a0If he decided tomorrow that\u00a0rolling in the tanks was to his<\/del> Russia's benefit, he'd do so.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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I have the sense that Putin's use of the Duma is akin to use of the use of the Supreme Soviet by his Communist forbears — a convenient and symbolic gesture. \u00a0If he decided tomorrow that\u00a0rolling in the tanks was to his Russia's benefit, he'd do so.\ufeff Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to … Continue reading “You'll forgive me if I'm not reassured”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/and-always-watch-the-skies.html","url_meta":{"origin":43241,"position":0},"title":"And always watch the skies!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Feb-13 5:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Crikey. 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