{"id":16285,"date":"2025-02-02T00:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2025-02-02T00:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:54:48","slug":"what-russia-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-your-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16285","title":{"rendered":"What Russia Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know About Your History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eastern European countries were brought and kept in the Warsaw pact by force. These countries wanted to join NATO because they were afraid Russia would invade them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before many of them joined NATO, Russia was already violently intervening in its neighbors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland threatened to develop nuclear weapons to defend itself, and got involved in U.S.&nbsp;politics to push for it joining NATO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Russia Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know About Your History\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWK_euAwrMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern European countries were brought and kept in the Warsaw pact by force. These countries wanted to join NATO because they were afraid Russia would invade them. <\/p>\n<p>Before many of them joined NATO, Russia was already violently intervening in its neighbors. <\/p>\n<p>Poland threatened to develop nuclear weapons to defend itself, and got involved in U.S. politics to push for it joining NATO. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lWK_euAwrMk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[924,728,272,355,770,314,1070,1039,315,619],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-history","tag-international-relations","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16286,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions\/16286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}