{"id":27201,"date":"2016-06-08T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=27201"},"modified":"2016-06-08T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:15:34","slug":"playing-with-fire-nato-launches-massive-wargame-in-russias-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/playing-with-fire-nato-launches-massive-wargame-in-russias-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Fire: NATO Launches Massive Wargame In Russia&#8217;s Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 31,000 troops and thousands of military vehicles are taking part in NATO&#8217;s &#8220;Operation Anakonda 2016&#8221; in Poland this week. It is the largest NATO operation since the end of the Cold War and it is taking place not far from Poland&#8217;s border with Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad. US generals swear it is just a &#8220;defensive&#8221; exercise and there is nothing for Russia to be concerned over. How would the US feel about a similar Russian\/Chinese military exercise in Mexico? We ponder this and more in Ron Paul&#8217;s Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WnrhDxEhtjo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 31,000 troops and thousands of military vehicles are taking part in NATO&#8217;s &#8220;Operation Anakonda 2016&#8221; in Poland this week. It is the largest NATO operation since the end of the Cold War and it is taking place not far from Poland&#8217;s border with Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad. US generals swear it is just a &#8220;defensive&#8221; exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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-27201","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\/27201","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27202,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27201\/revisions\/27202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}