{"id":4320,"date":"2022-01-21T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:09:10","slug":"a-slow-motion-cuban-missile-crisis-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/21\/a-slow-motion-cuban-missile-crisis-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Slow-Motion Cuban Missile Crisis&#8217; in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The recent mobilisation of Russian troops &#8216;all comes back to NATO enlargement&#8217;, Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics tells BBC Radio Kent. <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s troop mobilisation at the Ukrainian border in the final days of 2021 have proven worrying for the USA and its allies.\u00a0 The &#8216;culmination of many years of complaint&#8217;, all &#8216;stemming back to NATO enlargement&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2273\/sakwa-richard\">Professor Richard Sakwa<\/a> told BBC Radio Kent this week: &#8216;As far as Moscow has been concerned no one has been listening to them, so this mobilisation is a way of trying to get attention to start negotiations.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sakwa discusses the history around Russia&#8217;s exclusion from NATO, what the result of Britain&#8217;s current military support of Ukraine will be, and what kind of International diplomacy will be necessary to avoid a slowly building crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4320-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2022\/01\/UKRADBBCKENT_01-21-2022_07.37.39.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2022\/01\/UKRADBBCKENT_01-21-2022_07.37.39.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/files\/2022\/01\/UKRADBBCKENT_01-21-2022_07.37.39.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent mobilisation of Russian troops &#8216;all comes back to NATO enlargement&#8217;, Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics tells BBC Radio Kent. Russia\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/01\/21\/a-slow-motion-cuban-missile-crisis-in-the-making\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[245815,245818,194596,245819,245814,245817,245813,50223,245816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}