{"id":7494,"date":"2022-03-17T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:02:16","slug":"assassinating-putin-wont-work-it-never-has-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Assassinating Putin Won\u2019t Work. It Never Has for America."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;We\u2019ve tried it repeatedly. Often we have failed, but even when we seem to have succeeded, the long-term consequences have been terrible. An order from the Oval Office to assassinate a foreign leader would not break a taboo. It would only be the latest in a series of self-defeating blunders.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/03\/13\/presidents-ordered-assasinations-us-putin-00016568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/03\/13\/presidents-ordered-assasinations-us-putin-00016568<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve tried it repeatedly. Often we have failed, but even when we seem to have succeeded, the long-term consequences have been terrible. An order from the Oval Office to assassinate a foreign leader would not break a taboo. It would only be<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7494\">Read More<\/a><\/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":[174,552,272,355,314,1545,316,315,619,158],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assassination","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","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=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}