{"id":647,"date":"2014-07-11T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=647"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:54:07","slug":"gregory-the-case-against-putins-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/07\/11\/gregory-the-case-against-putins-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory: The case against Putin&#8217;s &#8220;success&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulroderickgregory\/2014\/07\/11\/putins-failing-ukraine-scorecard\/\">Putin&#8217;s Failing Ukraine Scorecard<\/a>,&#8221; Forbes&#8217;s Paul Roderick Gregory lays out the case <em>against<\/em> the more popular narrative that Putin has succeeded in &#8220;outwitting&#8221; the West in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>While I agree that Putin&#8217;s success in Ukraine itself appears limited, he\u00a0remains very popular in Russia, and as the EU elections showed, seems to have a growing number of supporters in the European right (and far left). The jury is still out on whether and to what extent he is failing in his goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Failing Ukraine Scorecard,&#8221; Forbes&#8217;s Paul Roderick Gregory lays out the case against the more popular narrative that Putin has succeeded in &#8220;outwitting&#8221; the West in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. While I agree that Putin&#8217;s success in Ukraine itself appears limited, he\u00a0remains very popular in Russia, and as the EU elections showed, seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103254,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putin","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}