{"id":52906,"date":"2022-09-30T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52906"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:56:34","slug":"pipeline-sabotage-is-mystery-but-putin-russia-are-prime-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52906","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline sabotage is mystery, but Putin, Russia are prime suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is the prime suspect in the apparent sabotage of pipelines transporting natural gas to Europe, which has left foul methane gas spewing into the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Experts say damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines is a cynical use of a \u201cgray-zone\u201d aggression that leaves few good options for retribution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have war-gamed this for years, we\u2019ve always been a bit afraid that this is something that the Russians could do if they wanted to,\u201d said Jim Townsend, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of us have got to know that\u00a0Putin\u00a0has other cards that he can play besides conventional or nuclear, he\u2019s got something in between \u2013 this critical infrastructure, that can be a target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is the prime suspect in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52907,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52906\/revisions\/52907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}