{"id":12049,"date":"2019-11-08T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12049"},"modified":"2019-11-08T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:06:55","slug":"the-big-winner-in-ukraine-scandal-russia-just-as-it-always-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-big-winner-in-ukraine-scandal-russia-just-as-it-always-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"The big winner in Ukraine scandal? Russia \u2014 just as it always wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s nightmare is a prosperous, rule-of-law Ukraine integrated into the affluent West on Russia\u2019s border. Such a Ukrainian success story would trace back to its popular revolution on Maidan Square in February 2004. Might Ukraine not give the Russian people ideas to do the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is for this reason that the Kremlin has conducted a frantic propaganda war to demonstrate Ukraine\u2019s abject failure, its rampant corruption, and to instruct others in Russia\u2019s \u201csphere of influence\u201d not to follow Ukraine\u2019s example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that Ukraine cannot get a lucky break in its quest to turn from Russia to become part of Europe. From its founding in August 1991 to today, Ukraine navigated an Orange Revolution (2004-5), lost Crimea to forced Russian annexation (April 2014) and fought the Russian-backed invasion of its eastern territory \u2014 largely with volunteers while it organized a national army.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/469386-the-big-winner-in-ukraine-scandal-russia-just-as-it-always-wanted\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article is from my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Vladimir Putin\u2019s nightmare is a prosperous, rule-of-law Ukraine integrated into the affluent West on Russia\u2019s border. Such a Ukrainian success story would trace back to its popular revolution on Maidan Square in February 2004. Might Ukraine not give the Russian people ideas [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-38l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12676,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-adds-to-putins-headaches-wests-worries\/","url_meta":{"origin":12049,"position":0},"title":"Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict adds to Putin&#8217;s headaches, West&#8217;s worries","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill The last thing\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0needed is another hotspot in Russia\u2019s \u201cnear abroad\u201d \u2014 Russia\u2019s term for the 14 republics that once were part of the old Soviet Union, along with the Russian Republic.\u00a0 In 2014, Putin boasted of an\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11821,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-russia-preparing-a-gas-nuclear-option\/","url_meta":{"origin":12049,"position":1},"title":"Is Russia Preparing A Gas Nuclear Option?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory published\u00a0by\u00a0Forbes Vladimir Putin is noted for taking surprise action, which confronts his victims with a fait accompli. 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