{"id":42340,"date":"2022-03-11T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/a-necessary-war-reporting-on-the-ukraine-disagreement-outside-the-west"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:30:16","slug":"a-necessary-war-reporting-on-the-ukraine-disagreement-outside-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42340","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A necessary war\u2019: reporting on the Ukraine \u2018disagreement\u2019 outside the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela says Putin is a victim, China blames the US, and a South African pundit calls out western hypocrisy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, heartbreak and death. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-60515626\">bloodstained aggressor<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2022\/03\/12\/the-stalinisation-of-russia\">21st-century Stalin<\/a>. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2022\/03\/john-oliver-calls-putin-a-total-fucking-dickhead\">total fucking dickhead<\/a>. Beelzebub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the face of Putin. You will see the devil,\u201d one US commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerescourier.com\/opinion\/editorial\/vladimir-putin-devil\/\">opined<\/a> on Wednesday as a maternity hospital was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/ukraine-mariupol-civilians-russia-war\">bombed<\/a> in the city of Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/a-necessary-war-reporting-on-the-ukraine-disagreement-outside-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela says Putin is a victim, China blames the US, and a South African pundit calls out western hypocrisyRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesMany an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, hea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,238,1405,400,419,532,74,930,748,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-media","category-mexico","category-nigeria","category-russia","category-south-africa","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-venezuela","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340\/revisions\/42341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}