{"id":57164,"date":"2023-03-21T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57164"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:04:48","slug":"why-putin-is-casting-the-ukraine-war-as-a-fight-for-russias-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57164","title":{"rendered":"Why Putin is casting the Ukraine war as a fight for Russia\u2019s survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/30911077.25161\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvdmxhZGltaXItcHV0aW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9U2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MDMuMjEuMjMlMjBOUCUyMC0lMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwTmV3cyUyMEFsZXJ0JTIwLSUyMFdoeSUyMFB1dGluJTIwaXMlMjBjYXN0aW5n\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa7aba80c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/30911077.25161\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvdmxhZGltaXItcHV0aW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9U2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MDMuMjEuMjMlMjBOUCUyMC0lMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwTmV3cyUyMEFsZXJ0JTIwLSUyMFdoeSUyMFB1dGluJTIwaXMlMjBjYXN0aW5n\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa7aba80c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1679508024832000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ljgn1EaW3UhgaGq7Tcxkp\">Vladimir Putin\u00a0<\/a>has increasingly cast the Ukraine war as an epic fight for Russia\u2019s survival, accusing the West of \u201cusing Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia and as a testing range.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his telling, the West started the war, and Russia has everything to lose \u2014 even when all available evidence points to Putin launching an unprovoked invasion seeking to topple Ukraine\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Russia\u2019s losses mount, Putin is employing a psychological tool to get his people behind a conflict with no end in sight, according to several analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0has increasingly cast the&#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-57164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164","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=57164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57165,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions\/57165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}