{"id":40834,"date":"2022-10-09T06:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=40834"},"modified":"2022-10-09T06:46:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T14:46:05","slug":"zelenskys-wildly-irresponsible-call-for-a-preventive-nuclear-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/zelenskys-wildly-irresponsible-call-for-a-preventive-nuclear-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky&#8217;s Wildly Irresponsible Call for a &#8216;Preventive Nuclear Strike&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft evasion, escalation of military operations and other highly topical subjects in today&#8217;s Russia<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky&#8217;s wildly irresponsible call for a &quot;preventive nuclear strike against Russia&quot;: analysis on Iran&#8217;s Press TV<\/p>\n<p>Once again I have the pleasure of recommending to my readership a live interview on Iran&#8217;s Press TV earlier today. Once again, I find their news presenter very well briefed on the subject at hand. Once again I find their political positioning remarkably friendly to the Russian side in the conflict with the West over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>One might draw conclusions about a shift in Iranian state politics away from &quot;kiss and make up&quot; with the United States and towards alignment with its regional neighbors and with the great powers Russia and China. It is these last two which are raising Iran&#8217;s image of stable and constructive contributor to the world order in forums such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Caspian Economic Forum, presently being held in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wE8cVt7OEkM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Gilbert Doctorow is a Brussels-based political analyst. His latest book is <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Does-Russia-Have-Future-Nonconformist\/dp\/1514665336\/\">Does Russia Have a Future?<\/a><i> Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/gilbertdoctorow.com\/\">his blog<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a9 Gilbert Doctorow, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft evasion, escalation of military operations and other highly topical subjects in today&#8217;s Russia Zelensky&#8217;s wildly irresponsible call for a &quot;preventive nuclear strike against Russia&quot;: analysis on Iran&#8217;s Press TV Once again I have the pleasure of recommending to my readership a live interview on Iran&#8217;s Press TV earlier today. Once again, I find their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"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-40834","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\/40834","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\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40836,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions\/40836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}