{"id":34741,"date":"2019-02-24T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=34741"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:03:20","slug":"with-such-friends-who-needs-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/02\/24\/with-such-friends-who-needs-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"With such friends, who needs enemies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even some who oppose America&#8217;s blatant oil grab &#8211; I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives for this latest &#8216;humanitarian intervention&#8217; &#8211; are writing drivel on Maduro&#8217;s &#8220;failure&#8221;. The image below links to a piece today by Anatoly Karlin. Below it is my response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/akarlin\/venezuela-aid-scam\/?fbclid=IwAR1fLNhs605O8gYNLQzwJKavme9z26trrfdvv0MSxHWxZdTokg3Tq1Rd77w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34738\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eric-kraus-on-venezuela-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eric-kraus-on-venezuela-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-34737\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eric-kraus-on-venezuela-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eric-kraus-on-venezuela-3.jpg 547w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eric-kraus-on-venezuela-3-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even some who oppose America&#8217;s blatant oil grab &#8211; I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives for this latest &#8216;humanitarian intervention&#8217; &#8211; are writing drivel on Maduro&#8217;s &#8220;failure&#8221;. The image below links to a &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/02\/24\/with-such-friends-who-needs-enemies\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america","category-politics-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}