{"id":380,"date":"2017-04-07T20:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-04-07T20:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:44:40","slug":"syria-strike-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Syria Strike &#8211; Before and After &#8211; Watch for Russian Action in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin will respond to action as would be expected.\u00a0 It is a safe bet that Russia will amp up pressure in other areas such as Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Tillerson, who, with General McMaster put forward a strong case for the Syrian action, will have to address this when he travels to Moscow next week.\u00a0 He will need a strong message, but combined with a reminder with Washington has its benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Two opinion pieces written with Judy Miller for the Fox Opinion Page. The first on 5 April (http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/04\/05\/syria-trumps-first-national-security-test-needs-more-than-tough-tweets.html) draws from previous blog posting.<\/p>\n<p>The second from today 7 April, the morning after the strike (http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/04\/07\/syria-airstrikes-critical-message-trump-sent-to-north-korea-china-and-russia.html).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin will respond to action as would be expected.\u00a0 It is a safe bet that Russia will amp up pressure in other areas such as Ukraine. Secretary of State Tillerson, who, with General McMaster put forward a strong case for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,65,12,19,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}