{"id":39653,"date":"2022-04-24T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2022-04-24T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T19:37:36","slug":"former-nato-analyst-and-top-un-official-says-this-is-the-real-reason-for-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/24\/former-nato-analyst-and-top-un-official-says-this-is-the-real-reason-for-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NATO Analyst and Top UN Official Says This Is the Real Reason for War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Iversen of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCPWXiRWZ29zrxPFIQT7eHSA\">Rising<\/a> <\/em>at <em>The Hill<\/em> reviews the role of autonomists in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting perspective on an article by Jacques Baud, a former member of the Swiss strategic intelligence and specialist in Eastern countries.  He was also a top official at the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEIFwLKlq1Q\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Iversen of Rising at The Hill reviews the role of autonomists in the war in Ukraine. Very interesting perspective on an article by Jacques Baud, a former member of the Swiss strategic intelligence and specialist in Eastern countries. He was also a top official at the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-39653","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\/39653","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39656,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39653\/revisions\/39656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39653"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}