{"id":37103,"date":"2026-07-11T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=37103"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:34:04","slug":"why-the-west-keeps-missing-the-point-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=37103","title":{"rendered":"Why the West keeps missing the point on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Russia-Russian-Flags-copy.jpeg?fit=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>In early June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Vladimir Putin proposing a face-to-face meeting to end a war now in its fifth year. Putin\u2019s reply was that talks were pointless unless Ukrainian forces first withdrew from Russian-occupied territory and Kyiv dropped its bid to join NATO. It was a small exchange [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/07\/why-the-west-keeps-missing-the-point-on-russia\/\">Why the West keeps missing the point on Russia<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Vladimir Putin proposing a face-to-face meeting to end a war now in its fifth year. Putin\u2019s reply was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}