{"id":11043,"date":"2018-03-07T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:40:16","slug":"putins-nuclear-posturing-part-of-effort-to-win-back-displeased-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-nuclear-posturing-part-of-effort-to-win-back-displeased-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s nuclear posturing part of effort to win back displeased public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is by a colleague of mine: Dr. Paul Gregory \/\/ The Hill<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin served up his election platform for his perfunctory March 18 re-election in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/putins-remarkable-historic-march-1-speech-moscow-video-excerpts-full-transcript\/ri22667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual address<\/a>\u00a0to the two houses of Russia\u2019s parliament on Thursday. Putin addressed two audiences \u2014 the Russian people and his external enemies,\u00a0namely the U.S. and NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Putin promised his domestic audience that, with him in the Kremlin, they can enjoy both guns and butter. He will maintain a strong military that can withstand any threat from the West, which Putin\u2019s propaganda has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levada.ru\/cp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convinced<\/a>\u00a0the Russian people is real.<\/p>\n<p>Some three-quarters of Russians consider the U.S. a threat, and almost 60 percent fear NATO. True, military spending is up, but, with Putin\u2019s wise leadership, living standards will rise, inflation will be dampened and poverty rates will fall.<\/p>\n<p>Russia voters should be thankful to their president (according to him) for restoring Russia to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levada.ru\/en\/2015\/12\/03\/is-russia-a-superpower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rightful status<\/a>\u00a0as a superpower, even though it meant a cost in terms of living standards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/376743-putins-nuclear-posturing-part-of-effort-to-win-back-displeased-public\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is by a colleague of mine: Dr. Paul Gregory \/\/ The Hill Vladimir Putin served up his election platform for his perfunctory March 18 re-election in his\u00a0annual address\u00a0to the two houses of Russia\u2019s parliament on Thursday. Putin addressed two audiences \u2014 the Russian people and his external enemies,\u00a0namely the U.S. and NATO. Putin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1097,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2S7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9862,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-three-headed-hydra-of-the-middle-east\/","url_meta":{"origin":11043,"position":0},"title":"The Three-Headed Hydra of the Middle East","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Trump has inherited a matrix of problems that primarily stem from Iran, Russia, and ISIS. 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