{"id":24150,"date":"2014-08-24T20:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24150"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:25:56","slug":"biden-pushes-federalism-in-iraq-but-us-remains-pro-centralization-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/biden-pushes-federalism-in-iraq-but-us-remains-pro-centralization-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Pushes Federalism in Iraq, But US Remains Pro-Centralization in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Admniistration has for months been railing against Russian &#8220;interference&#8221; because the Russian Federation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/world\/russia-for-federalism-in-ukraine\/article5872959.ece\">has been advocating<\/a> a federal system in Ukraine as a way of increasing regional autonomy in the face of secessionist rebellions. <\/p>\n<p>Never let it be said they won&#8217;t be openly hypocritical. <\/p>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden penned an entire op-ed today in which he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/biden-us-would-help-iraq-pursue-federal-system-110282.html?hp=l21\">pushed for a federal system<\/a> to be declared in Iraq, and that the US would &#8220;help&#8221; Iraq in implementing it. <\/p>\n<p>The US efforts is the mirror of the Russian effort, trying to satisfy its allied factions in the nation while tamping down a civil war that those factions are likely to lose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Admniistration has for months been railing against Russian &#8220;interference&#8221; because the Russian Federation has been advocating a federal system in Ukraine as a way of increasing regional autonomy in the face of secessionist rebellions. Never let it be said they won&#8217;t be openly hypocritical. Vice President Joe Biden penned an entire op-ed today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-24150","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\/24150","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24151,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24150\/revisions\/24151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}