{"id":9751,"date":"2014-04-30T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2014-04-30T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:31:03","slug":"challenging-putins-values-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/30\/challenging-putins-values-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Putin\u2019s Values | NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas L. Friedman&#8217;s opinion at the NY Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.Ukraine is not threatening Russia, but Ukraine\u2019s revolution is threatening Putin. The main goal of the Ukraine uprising is to import a rules-based system from the E.U. that will break the kleptocracy that has dominated Kiev \u2014 the same kind of kleptocracy Putin wants to maintain in Moscow. Putin doesn\u2019t care if Germans live by E.U. rules, but when fellow Slavs, like Ukrainians, want to \u2014 that is a threat to him at home.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let anyone tell you the sanctions are meaningless and the only way to influence Russia is by moving tanks. (Putin would love that. It would force every Russian to rally to him.) If anything, we should worry that over time our sanctions will work too well. And don\u2019t let anyone tell you that we\u2019re challenging Russia\u2019s \u201cspace.\u201d We\u2019re not. The real issue here is that Ukrainians, as individuals and collectively, are challenging Putin\u2019s \u201cvalues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> We couldn\u2019t stop them if we wanted to. They\u2019ve been empowered by globalization and the I.T. revolution. Get used to it, Comrade Putin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/30\/opinion\/friedman-challenging-putins-values.html?&#038;_r=0'>Challenging Putin\u2019s Values &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas L. Friedman&#8217;s opinion at the NY Times: &#8230;&#8230;.Ukraine is not threatening Russia, but Ukraine\u2019s revolution is threatening Putin. The main goal of the Ukraine uprising is to import a rules-based system from the E.U. that will break the kleptocracy that has dominated Kiev \u2014 the same kind of kleptocracy Putin wants to maintain in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/30\/challenging-putins-values-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Challenging Putin\u2019s Values | NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1285,3006,3521,3614],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","tag-eu","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Challenging Putin\u2019s Values | NYTimes.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Challenging Putin\u2019s Values | NYTimes.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thomas L. 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