{"id":484,"date":"2008-08-12T09:09:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-08-12T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T09:09:38","slug":"south-ossetia-georgia-russia-us-a-dirty-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/south-ossetia-georgia-russia-us-a-dirty-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, US &#8211; a dirty mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not esay to decipher what is going on in the &#8220;breakaway state of South Ossetia&#8221;.\u00a0 You can draw your own conclusions by reading the various <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/europe\/2008\/georgia_russia_conflict\/default.stm\">news reports and summaries in this section of the BBC news website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the solution is for everyone to pull their fingers out of the pie and allow South Ossetia independence.\u00a0 This will allow the people of that region to choose their own social and economic destiny.\u00a0 There is no good reason for Georgia to hang on to the state, nor for Russia to be involved in any conflict, nor for the US to sponsor violence.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult for us to allow fragmentation of nation states.\u00a0 But that is the way of the future.\u00a0 Local communities interdependent on one another and aligned with a globally responsible ethic is the sustainable political destiny of humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not esay to decipher what is going on in the &#8220;breakaway state of South Ossetia&#8221;.\u00a0 You can draw your own conclusions by reading the various news reports and summaries in this section of the BBC news website. It seems that the solution is for everyone to pull their fingers out of the pie &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/south-ossetia-georgia-russia-us-a-dirty-mess\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, US &#8211; a dirty mess<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}