{"id":9766,"date":"2010-03-17T14:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/the-black-sea-europes-new-flashpoint\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:13:25","slug":"the-black-sea-europes-new-flashpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/the-black-sea-europes-new-flashpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Sea &#8211; Europe&#8217;s New Flashpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/25\/europes_new_flashpoint_98821.html'>The Black Sea &#8211; Europe&#8217;s New Flashpoint<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/25\/europes_new_flashpoint_98821.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black Sea regional map\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/03\/03\/weekinreview\/03blacksea\/03blacksea-blogSpan.jpg\" align=\"text-top\" height=\"366\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pipelines criss-crossing the seabed, extraction platforms dotting the coastlines, U.S. missile defense cruisers and destroyers patrolling the surface and paying visits to ports of call, while the Russian Navy anchors at its Ukrainian rent-a-port at Sevastopol: As the decade unfolds, the Black Sea is about to become a busy place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/02\/europes-new-flashpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times Ideas<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Sea &#8211; Europe&#8217;s New Flashpoint Pipelines criss-crossing the seabed, extraction platforms dotting the coastlines, U.S. missile defense cruisers and destroyers patrolling the surface and paying visits to ports of call, while the Russian Navy anchors at its Ukrainian rent-a-port at Sevastopol: As the decade unfolds, the Black Sea is about to become a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/the-black-sea-europes-new-flashpoint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Black Sea &#8211; Europe&#8217;s New Flashpoint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}