{"id":365,"date":"2024-01-04T02:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-01-04T02:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:23:30","slug":"ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian aggression in Ukraine is completely unjustified.&nbsp; Ukraine is not run by Nazis, and resistance by Ukrainians to Russia taking over their country is self-defense and not a threat to Russian society.&nbsp; The West has no designs to take over or obliterate Russia.&nbsp; The longer the war goes on, the lower Russia falls in the eyes of the world (including among the countries that publicly support Russia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will support the U.S. ensuring Ukrainian freedom by supplying funds and war materiel, for as long as it takes, sufficient to enable Ukraine to effectively prevent take-over by Russia.&nbsp; If we do not do this, Putin will be emboldened to do the same again (probably one or more of the Baltic countries).&nbsp; It is not clear yet whether it will be practicable for Ukraine to keep all of its eastern territory.&nbsp; If both sides run out of manpower, all sides may decide to let the people living there vote on whether to join Russia or stay with Ukraine.&nbsp; (It is a nasty ploy by Russia to infiltrate its citizens into the territories of other countries and then claim that since Russians are a majority (or an oppressed minority), Russia should take control of that territory.)&nbsp; I will also reassure Russia that the U.S. has no designs on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian aggression in Ukraine is completely unjustified.&nbsp; Ukraine is not run by Nazis, and resistance by Ukrainians to Russia taking over their country is self-defense and not a threat to Russian society.&nbsp; The West has no designs to take over or obliterate Russia.&nbsp; The longer the war goes on, the lower Russia falls in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbeforpresident.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}