{"id":43255,"date":"2014-03-26T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rowan_williams_tells_univ-_audience_its_not_just_wicked_russia_versus_pluck\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:45:28","slug":"rowan_williams_tells_univ-_audience_its_not_just_wicked_russia_versus_pluck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43255","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams tells Univ. audience &#39;It&#39;s not just wicked Russia versus plucky Ukraine&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to a public question following his talk at Anglia Ruskin\u2019s Cambridge campus this week, Lord Williams said Russia had behaved \u201cunlawfully\u201d\u009d by moving troops into the region of Crimea, which is part of the sovereign state of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe annexation of Crimea is a legally pretty dubious venture. To have a plebiscite in a certain region of another sovereign state and declare that therefore you can annexe it seems to me a deeply worrying re-run of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m wary of any military action to defend Ukraine against Russia. I\u2019m looking hard to see what further diplomatic as well as sanction-based initiatives may follow because I don\u2019t think it is simply a case of \u201d\u02dcwicked aggressive Russia and plucky little Ukraine\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/News\/Lord-Rowan-Williams-tells-audience-at-Anglia-Ruskin-University-in-Cambridge-Its-not-just-wicked-Russia-versus-plucky-Ukraine-20140326050033.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to a public question following his talk at Anglia Ruskin\u2019s Cambridge campus this week, Lord Williams said Russia had behaved \u201cunlawfully\u201d\u009d by moving troops into the region of Crimea, which is part of the sovereign state of Ukraine. He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43255\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,381,67,143,168,200,108,479,34,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-religion-culture","category-russia","category-theology","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}