{"id":39181,"date":"2019-08-28T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=39181"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:23:26","slug":"limits-to-western-regime-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/08\/28\/limits-to-western-regime-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits to Western “regime change”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Good post in OffGuardian two days ago from the always highly readable Andre Vitchek.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, Western \u201cRegime\u201d Changes Keep Failing<\/span><\/h1>\n

It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the nation, totally shaken, in pain, and in disarray, would collapse like a house of cards, once the first NATO boots hit its ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such scenarios were re-enacted, again and again, from Yugoslavia to Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

But suddenly, something significant has happened. This horrific lawlessness, this chaos stopped; was deterred.<\/span><\/p>\n

The West keeps using the same tactics, it tries to terrorize independent-minded countries, to frighten people into submission, to overthrow what it defines as \u2018regimes\u2019, but its power, its monstrously destructive power has all of a sudden become ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n

Full piece here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Good post in OffGuardian two days ago from the always highly readable Andre Vitchek. Suddenly, Western \u201cRegime\u201d Changes Keep Failing It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-general","category-politics-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39181","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=39181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}