{"id":30123,"date":"2016-09-13T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/putin-once-casually-said-over-dinner-that-he-could-destroy-america-in-a-half-hour-or-less"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:16:13","slug":"putin-once-casually-said-over-dinner-that-he-could-destroy-america-in-a-half-hour-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/putin-once-casually-said-over-dinner-that-he-could-destroy-america-in-a-half-hour-or-less","title":{"rendered":"Putin once casually said over dinner that he could destroy America in a half-hour or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putin-once-casually-said-over-dinner-that-he-could-destroy-america-in-a-half-hour-or-less.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In December 2011, Vladimir Putin, then Russia\u2019s prime minister, was positioned to reclaim his role as Russia\u2019s president in the March 2012 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, he hosted a lavish banquet at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcentury.ru\/index.php?lang=en\">New Century<\/a>, Moscow\u2019s richest equestrian club, for members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/valdaiclub.com\/about\/\">Valdai Club<\/a> and distinguished academics and journalists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fare was extravagant: smoked trout, duck liver, venison soup, rhubarb sorbet, veal cheeks, and pear soup with caramel,\u201d according to Douglas Schoen and Melik Kaylan, authors of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594037566\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1594037566&linkCode=as2&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkId=A2FLQPWWVDZTOLXU\">The Russia-China Axis<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/businessinsider\/article\/Putin-once-casually-said-over-dinner-that-he-6735577.php\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/businessinsider\/article\/Put...735577.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmmm; In December 2011, Vladimir Putin, then Russia\u2019s prime minister, was positioned to reclaim his role as Russia\u2019s president in the March 2012 elections. Fittingly, he hosted a lavish banquet at New Century, Moscow\u2019s richest equestrian club, for members of the Valdai Club and distinguished academics and journalists from around the world. \u201cThe fare was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66258,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions\/66258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}