{"id":3210,"date":"2018-03-28T23:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:02:47","slug":"mattis-russia-has-chosen-to-be-a-strategic-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/28\/mattis-russia-has-chosen-to-be-a-strategic-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTIS: RUSSIA HAS CHOSEN TO BE A \u201cSTRATEGIC COMPETITOR\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1827\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/Russian_Air_Force_Kamov_Ka-52.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: The National Interest<\/p>\n<p>By Dave Majumdar<\/p>\n<p>The United States places the blame on Russia for the breakdown in relations between NATO and Moscow. In the view of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Russia chose to be strategic competitor to the United States and NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NATO alliance tried to create a partnership\u2014so, there&#8217;s a Russia-NATO partnership council,\u201d Mattis told reporters on March 27. \u201cThere is a mechanism to keep us working together.\u00a0 And I think a number of us with my color hair can remember Russian marines in North Carolina working with U.S. Marines as we prepared for possible deployments together on U.N. peacekeeping missions\u2014humanitarian relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, that attempt at building at partnership with Russia has now passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat, regrettably, by Russia&#8217;s choice, is now a thing of the past,\u201d Mattis said. \u201cIt&#8217;s not currently in the works because Russia&#8217;s chosen to be a strategic competitor, even to the point of reckless activity.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s the only thing that it can be called to the innocent people in Salisbury who were exposed to, possibly\u2014to the potential of being murdered by this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/mattis-russia-has-chosen-be-strategic-competitor-25105<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: The National Interest By Dave Majumdar The United States places the blame on Russia for the breakdown in relations between NATO and Moscow. In the view of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Russia chose to be strategic competitor to the United States and NATO. \u201cThe NATO alliance tried to create a partnership\u2014so, there&#8217;s a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/28\/mattis-russia-has-chosen-to-be-a-strategic-competitor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MATTIS: RUSSIA HAS CHOSEN TO BE A \u201cSTRATEGIC COMPETITOR\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[66,27],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-nato","tag-russia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}