{"id":31236,"date":"2014-04-28T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=31236"},"modified":"2014-04-28T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:54:34","slug":"a-very-short-rant-on-the-russia-ukraine-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/a-very-short-rant-on-the-russia-ukraine-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Short Rant on the Russia Ukraine Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"_1x1\">\n<div class=\"userContentWrapper\">\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_31237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31237\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ukraine-Russia_flag_pins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31237\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ukraine-Russia_flag_pins.jpg\" alt=\"Russia &amp; Ukraine\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia &amp; Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">I think it is time that things start to ratchet down in the Ukraine-Russian conflict. <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">We in the rest of the World should not get suckered into this potential maelstrom of a nightmare. Mr. Putin is playing a very dangerous game of chess here.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_31242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31242\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ukraine-ethnic-regions-with-caption_large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31242\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ukraine-ethnic-regions-with-caption_large.png\" alt=\"ukraine-ethnic-regions\" width=\"580\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ukraine-ethnic-regions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">But then again, I doubt if any of this would have happened had the Ukrainian Government respected the election that voted in their President and rather than forcing him out illegally, waited to vote him out in an orderly and constitutional manner. Simply put, there is a major conundrum here that needs to be resolved and solved with due diligence before all Hell Burns Loose! Really!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_wk\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_31244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31244\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/145163_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31244\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/145163_600.jpg\" alt=\"Chest or is That Chess\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chest or is That Chess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is time that things start to ratchet down in the Ukraine-Russian conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[1193,1194,1033,1195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-87O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32341,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/i-am-boris-nemtsov\/","url_meta":{"origin":31236,"position":0},"title":"I Am Boris Nemtsov Je Suis \u0411\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0441 \u041d\u0435\u043c\u0446\u043e\u0432","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"March 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I Am Boris Nemtsov...Enough Said! 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