{"id":206,"date":"2024-05-26T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=206"},"modified":"2024-05-26T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:14:07","slug":"kennans-assessment-of-us-leaders-during-vietnam-war-rings-true-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Kennan\u2019s assessment of US leaders during Vietnam War rings true today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kennan\u2019s assessment of US leaders during Vietnam War rings true today: they were \u201clike men in a dream,\u201d incapable of \u201cany realistic assessment of their own acts.\u201d (From B. Tuchman, THE MARCH OF FOLLY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"984\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_20240524_065527_X-1024x984.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_20240524_065527_X-1024x984.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_20240524_065527_X-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_20240524_065527_X-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot_20240524_065527_X.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennan\u2019s assessment of US leaders during Vietnam War rings true today: they were \u201clike men in a dream,\u201d incapable of \u201cany realistic assessment of their own acts.\u201d (From B. Tuchman, THE MARCH OF FOLLY)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}