{"id":136144,"date":"2022-02-27T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/pentagon-wants-moscow-back-channels-to-prevent-nuclear-escalation"},"modified":"2022-02-27T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:22:20","slug":"pentagon-wants-moscow-back-channels-to-prevent-nuclear-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/pentagon-wants-moscow-back-channels-to-prevent-nuclear-escalation","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon wants Moscow back channels to prevent nuclear escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-wants-moscow-back-channels-to-prevent-nuclear-escalation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that Ukrainian airspace is in dispute and being contested and Ukrainian airspace runs right up alongside NATO airspace, we have conveyed to the Russians that we believe a conduit at the operational level is needed \u2026 so we can avoid miscalculation,\u201d a senior Pentagon official told POLITICO. \u201cAnd we have not received any response from them in terms of whether they agree, whether they are willing to set something up.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the U.S. and NATO rush weapons into Ukraine, DoD officials want more military channels to Putin\u2019s top leaders. But Russia\u2019s not picking up the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow that Ukrainian airspace is in dispute and being contested and Ukrainian airspace runs right up alongside NATO airspace, we have conveyed to the Russians that we believe a conduit at the operational level is needed \u2026 so we can avoid miscalculation,\u201d a senior Pentagon official told POLITICO. \u201cAnd we have not received any response [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}