{"id":39414,"date":"2022-03-22T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=39414"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:57:22","slug":"us-fighting-russia-to-the-last-ukrainian-veteran-us-diplomat-chas-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/us-fighting-russia-to-the-last-ukrainian-veteran-us-diplomat-chas-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fighting Russia &#8216;to the Last Ukrainian&#8217;: Veteran US Diplomat Chas Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chas Freeman, a retired senior US diplomat, analyzes Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the US role, and the geopolitical fallout. &#8220;Everything we are doing, rather than accelerate an end to the fighting and some compromise, seems to be aimed at prolonging the fighting,&#8221; Freeman says. <\/p>\n<p>Guest: Chas Freeman. Veteran U.S. diplomat and public servant who has served in many senior positions, including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and as the principal US interpreter during President Nixon\u2019s historic visit to China in 1972.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0vxufUeqnuc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/aaronmate\">Support Pushback at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 Chas Freeman, a retired senior US diplomat, analyzes Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the US role, and the geopolitical fallout. &#8220;Everything we are doing, rather than accelerate an end to the fighting and some compromise, seems to be aimed at prolonging the fighting,&#8221; Freeman says. Guest: Chas Freeman. Veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"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-39414","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\/39414","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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39417,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39414\/revisions\/39417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}