{"id":31998,"date":"2014-03-02T17:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=31998"},"modified":"2014-03-03T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:57:03","slug":"on-sovereignty-by-motorbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=31998","title":{"rendered":"On sovereignty by motorbike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; so if they ride through Z\u00fcrich, do they get to keep all the banks? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Burton<\/strong> asked an intriguing question on Twitter today [upper panel, below] &#8212; while 5,000 Russians pose a similar question [lower panel]:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SPEC-Sovereignty-language-or-bikes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SPEC-Sovereignty-language-or-bikes.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Sovereignty - language or bikes\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SPEC-Sovereignty-language-or-bikes.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SPEC-Sovereignty-language-or-bikes-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time sovereignty depended on bike club membership?<\/p>\n<p>** <\/p>\n<p>Addendum:<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Burton kindly pointed me to this WaPo piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-and-allies-try-to-decide-on-response-to-ukraine-crisis\/2014\/03\/01\/463d1922-a174-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html\">Obama speaks with Putin by phone, calls on Russia to pull forces back to Crimea bases<\/a>, which includes the following wording:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the case of any further spread of violence to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea,&#8221; a statement issued by Putin\u2019s office said, &#8220;Russia retains the right to protect its interests and the Russian-speaking population of those areas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; so if they ride through Z\u00fcrich, do they get to keep all the banks? ] . Matthew Burton asked an intriguing question on Twitter today [upper panel, below] &#8212; while 5,000 Russians pose a similar question [lower panel]: When was the last time sovereignty depended on bike club membership? ** [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,311,91,687,1026,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-gangs","category-russia","category-specs","category-ukraine","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}