{"id":6465,"date":"2024-09-12T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:36:51","slug":"6465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/09\/12\/6465\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old Middle East saying \u201cEverything is connected to everything,\u201d comes back to haunt the world with Putin\u2019s request and the Leader\u2019s agreement to send ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia to use against Ukraine.\u00a0 \u201cUkraine\u2019s American allies have long resisted giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the green light to use their long-range ballistics against the Kremlin\u2019s forces inside Russia, fearing Moscow could then escalate the war by retaliating against a target inside NATO, such as the critical weapons supply hub in the Polish city of Rzesz\u00f3w. The dynamics have now shifted dramatically, however, primarily thanks to a large shipment of Iranian missiles to Russia that the British authorities reckon will offer a critical firepower boost to Putin, just as his army extends its grip in eastern Ukraine with advances on the strategic city of Pokrovsk.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-vladimir-putin-war-in-ukraine-missile-strike-deal-britain-keir-starmer-united-states-joe-biden-white-house-summit-nato-iran-diplomacy\/\">\u201cPutin threatens war as Western allies near deal on missile strikes in Russia,\u201d<\/a> Politico, 9-12-24.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing abilities.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/12\/israel-syria-raid\">\u201cIsrael destroyed reported Iranian underground missile factory in Syria ground raid,\u201d<\/a> Axios, 9-12-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Middle East saying \u201cEverything is connected to everything,\u201d comes back to haunt the world with Putin\u2019s request and the Leader\u2019s agreement to send ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia to use against Ukraine.\u00a0 \u201cUkraine\u2019s American allies have long resisted giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the green light to use their long-range ballistics against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/09\/12\/6465\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}