{"id":1338,"date":"2008-08-22T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2008-08-21T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T03:26:20","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center><small>The Hippocratic Oath<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/08\/doasisay.jpg\" alt=\"Do as I say, not as I do\" \/><br \/>Do as I say, not as I do<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Should anyone be surprised that Russia would be unmoved by the words and threats from America relative to its unilateral attack and occupation of Georgia? I don&#8217;t support what the Russians have done, but I also don&#8217;t expect words from the U.S. to make a bit of difference in this situation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRussia, in her own view, &#8220;liberated&#8221; Georgia from the yoke of oppression. And indeed, in South Ossetia at least, there seems to be some people who wanted to be liberated amidst a country at large that was occupied with their infrastructure shattered.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFurthermore, Georgia represented a clear and present danger to Russian security, and unlike other unilateral actions in the past by nations that shall remain nameless, at least this threat was right on their border.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnother striking parallel is the oil angle, Georgia has two strategic pipelines that transport the black gold and it&#8217;s a great thing to be able to &#8220;liberate&#8221; strategic assets for the benefit of the homeland, is it not?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFinally, France wouldn&#8217;t join Russia in its action either. Guess french fries in Russia will have to be \u00d1\u0081\u00d0\u00b2\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b1\u00d0\u00be\u00d0\u00b4\u00d0\u00b0 \u00d0\u00ba\u00d0\u00b0\u00d1\u20ac\u00d1\u201a\u00d0\u00be\u00d1\u201e\u00d0\u00b5\u00d0\u00bb\u00d1\u0152 (freedom potatoes.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDo you think these are some unintended consequences from our actions? You bet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hippocratic OathDo as I say, not as I do Should anyone be surprised that Russia would be unmoved by the words and threats from America relative to its unilateral attack and occupation of Georgia? I don&#8217;t support what the Russians have done, but I also don&#8217;t expect words from the U.S. to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[156,98,158,157,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}