{"id":23071,"date":"2014-03-18T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2014-03-18T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:28:29","slug":"useless-bluster-biden-warns-us-may-conduct-military-exercises-in-baltics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/useless-bluster-biden-warns-us-may-conduct-military-exercises-in-baltics\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Bluster: Biden Warns US May Conduct Military Exercises in Baltics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden, who has been traversing Europe in the aftermath of the pro-Russian referendum in Crimea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/03\/18\/us-ukraine-crisis-biden-ilves-idUSBREA2H1N220140318\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that the U.S. &#8220;may consider rotating units of its ground and naval forces through the [Baltic] region for training exercises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is meant as a show of force ostensibly to demonstrate America&#8217;s military commitment to Europe in the face of Russian assertiveness and military incursions in Ukraine. I also heard Fox News panelists this morning demand the Obama administration send warships to the Black Sea to show Putin who is boss.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make one thing clear: these useless military exercises and demonstrations of force do absolutely nothing to alter the reality or Russia&#8217;s strategic calculations. They are essentially for domestic consumption, to satisfy political hardliners who are attacking the president for being too weak.<\/p>\n<p>They also hold the odious pretense that America owns the world and that Russian gains in its traditional sphere of influence represent a defiance of Uncle Sam, ruler of planet Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden, who has been traversing Europe in the aftermath of the pro-Russian referendum in Crimea, announced\u00a0on Tuesday that the U.S. &#8220;may consider rotating units of its ground and naval forces through the [Baltic] region for training exercises.&#8221; This is meant as a show of force ostensibly to demonstrate America&#8217;s military commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23072,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/23072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}