{"id":9385,"date":"2014-03-06T21:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2014-03-06T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:57:37","slug":"the-front-lines-on-russias-home-front-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/06\/the-front-lines-on-russias-home-front-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin invaded Ukraine because he had to | Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Aron at Foreign Policy writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The right foreign-policy move at the right time can boost a leader&#8217;s ratings and the regime&#8217;s popularity. This is doubly true for authoritarian regimes that lack democratic legitimacy, and it is true for Russia today.<\/p>\n<p>In Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia, as one top pollster told me in Moscow a few weeks ago, &#8220;foreign policy is pretty much the only thing that works.&#8221; What he meant was that, with the country&#8217;s economy slowed to a crawl, and with the regime facing near-universal revulsion over the corruption, thievery, and incompetence of officials at every level, racking up foreign-policy successes has become vital to maintaining Putin&#8217;s popularity &#8212; which, in turn, is key to the legitimacy of the whole enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2014\/03\/06\/the_frontlines_on_russia_homefront_putin_ukraine'>The Front Lines on Russia&#039;s Home Front<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Aron at Foreign Policy writes: The right foreign-policy move at the right time can boost a leader&#8217;s ratings and the regime&#8217;s popularity. 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