{"id":147197,"date":"2022-11-26T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=147197"},"modified":"2022-11-26T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T18:14:24","slug":"only-a-khazarian-controlled-un-envoy-would-outright-lie-so-recklessly-about-the-fake-russian-rape-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=147197","title":{"rendered":"<b>Only a Khazarian-controlled UN envoy would outright lie so recklessly about the fake Russian rape story.<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/viagra-cover.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/viagra-cover.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/viagra-cover-300x266.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title-wrap\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title title flipboard-title\">UN envoy admits fabricating claim of Viagra-fueled rape as \u2018Russian military strategy\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>ALEXANDER RUBINSTEIN<br \/>\nThe GRAYZONE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>UN Special Representative Pramila Patten has been exposed for fabricating her claim that Russia was supplying its troops with Viagra as a part of its \u201cmilitary strategy\u201d in the Ukraine conflict. The widely publicized lie was recycled from baseless NATO propaganda deployed during its 2011 Libyan regime change war.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AYAxinmll7I\">November 10 call<\/a>\u00a0with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, better known by their aliases Vovan and Lexus, UN Envoy on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten admitted that there was no evidence to back up her widely publicized claims from October that the Russian government was using Viagra-fueled mass rape as a weapon of war.<\/p>\n<p>During the call, Vovan and Lexus pressed Patten on whether she had any proof of her incendiary allegation. Clearly flustered, Patten responded:\u00a0 \u201cNo, no, no. And I don\u2019t \u2014 like I said, it\u2019s not my role to go and investigate. I sit in New York, in an office in New York, and I have an advocacy \u2014 and I have an advocacy mandate. My role is not to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cThe investigation is going on by the Human Rights Monitoring Team and the International Commission of Inquiry. In their reports so far, there\u2019s nothing about Viagra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patten told the pranksters that the claim was relayed to her \u201cfrom survivors and service providers\u201d and \u201cin the presence of\u201d high-ranking Ukrainian officials while she was in Kiev in early May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AYAxinmll7I?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1170\" height=\"659\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The fake news fiasco began on October 14 when Patten accused the Russian Armed Forces of incorporating rape and abuse of ED drugs into its official battlefield strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the indications are there,\u201d Patten, a Mauritian-born lawyer, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen women are held for days and raped, when you start to rape little boys and men, when you see a series of genital mutilations, when you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it\u2019s clearly a military strategy,\u201d the UN envoy confidently proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>A September 27 UN Report on the Ukraine conflict has accused Russian troops of carrying out an array hideous human rights abuses, including acts of sexual violence, between the months of February and July 2022. Though that report covered the period of time that Patten was inside Ukraine, it made no mention of Viagra.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, within hours of Patten\u2019s discussion with AFP, media outlets from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/15\/europe\/russia-ukraine-rape-sexual-violence-military-intl-hnk\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/russian-soldiers-supplied-viagra-rape-095358111.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALI3ac16Y4vVQAVo9w0wQRJufHQzqQUDISEAA0MUyLQ3IVorEOvO4sAhLmEUB59viEprGW-Cydik5tZCH0ZTEncOgQgoXxvxSUznSJQ_HdC-AAw2HONKgA1c97eruds4nB95u7qkyacc-d-ay1a4Nj1nmkepStiuZznO_kuguC2T\">Yahoo News<\/a>\u00a0had produced their own rewrites of her remarks and generated a series of salacious headlines about Russia\u2019s conduct in the Ukraine war.\u00a0In an op-ed celebrating a potential \u201cmassive\u201d and \u201clife-affirming\u201d orgy being organized in Kiev, the Slovenian celebrity philosopher Slavoj \u017di\u017eek uncritically cited Patten\u2019s poorly-sourced Viagra claims,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221027154053\/https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/ukraine-sex-parties-more-civilized-than-russian-atrocities-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-10\">writing<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe truly uncivilized sex acts are those being committed by Russian soldiers and their leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/15\/russia-is-giving-soldiers-viagra-to-rape-ukrainians-un-official\/\">Russia is giving soldiers Viagra to rape Ukrainians: UN official<\/a>,\u201d read one such dispatch, filed in the New York Post. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russian-soldiers-supplied-with-viagra-to-rape-ukrainians-un-official-2022-10?r=US&amp;IR=T\">Business Insider<\/a>, \u201cRussian soldiers are supplied with Viagra to rape Ukrainian women and \u2018dehumanize them,\u201d UN official claims.\u201d\u00a0Meanwhile, CNN declared \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/15\/europe\/russia-ukraine-rape-sexual-violence-military-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Russia using rape as \u2018military strategy\u2019 in Ukraine: UN envoy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87271\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?resize=1014%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?w=1014&amp;ssl=1 1014w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?resize=768%2C385&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?resize=770%2C386&amp;ssl=1 770w\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"87271\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2022\/11\/13\/un-envoy-fabricating-viagra-russian\/ffbbdjhwaaifdbt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?fit=1014%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1014,508\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AFP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?fit=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegrayzone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FfBbdjHWAAIfdbT.jpg?fit=1014%2C508&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mainstream press that reprinted Patten\u2019s lurid claims without skepticism failed to read the UN report which contained lengthy sections on the topic of sexual violence in the war. Despite her claim that Russian soldiers were \u201cequipped with Viagra,\u201d the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) made no reference to the drug \u2014 nor any other pharmaceutical prescribed to treat ED \u2014 in its September\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/countries\/ua\/2022-09-23\/ReportUkraine-1Feb-31Jul2022-en.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0on the Ukraine conflict. In fact, the OHCHR website contains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=viagra+site:https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/&amp;rlz=1C1GCEA_enMX970MX970&amp;sxsrf=ALiCzsYoOyN1nu-TUVRCS2PtZ_tfxChgWg:1667240751271&amp;source=lnt&amp;tbs=qdr:y&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwic5u_li4v7AhXDKEQIHV3LDzAQpwV6BAgBEBk&amp;biw=1396&amp;bih=685&amp;dpr=1.38\">no references<\/a>\u00a0to Viagra throughout this entire year.<\/p>\n<p>The report merely states that \u201cOHCHR documented 9 cases of rape\u201d between February 1st and the 31st of July this year; hardly the Rape of Nanjing redux insinuated in CNN\u2019s headline.<\/p>\n<p>In falsely accusing Russian military commanders of juicing their troops on Viagra to carry out mass rape, Patten dusted off the Libya regime change playbook and deployed one of its most discredited \u2013 but effective \u2013 propaganda set-pieces.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Recycling discredited NATO propaganda that helped destroy Libya<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Indeed, all six mentions of \u201cViagra\u201d which appear on the United Nations website date back to June 2011, just months before the assassination of the Libyan president as the pro-regime change information campaign was kicking into high-gear.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines like: \u201cLibyan forces use rape as a weapon of war, says UN expert,\u201d \u201cEvidence emerging of use of rape as tool of war in Libya \u2013 ICC prosecutor,\u201d and \u201cThe ICC is investigating allegations of using sex drugs for rape\u201d all ran on the United Nations website. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>The Viagra lie first appeared in 2011, when the US, France and the UK led the NATO campaign to remove the government of Muammar Gadhafi through military force, arming jihadist proxies and carrying out airstrikes on Libyan cities in the name of \u201ccivilian protection.\u201d The intervention transformed one of the most prosperous African nations into a permanent war zone ruled by despotic gangs and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4537800\/photographing-battles-for-sirte\/\">Islamist fanatics<\/a>\u00a0that presided over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/specials\/africa\/libya-slave-auctions\">slave auctions<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/vatican-insider\/en\/2017\/10\/07\/news\/the-bodies-of-the-coptic-martyrs-beheaded-by-isis-found-in-libya-1.34398737\">slaughter of religious minorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Viagra deception was first introduced in March 2011 by the Qatari-owned network al-Jazeera, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2011\/3\/28\/rape-used-as-a-weapon-in-libya\">interviewed<\/a>\u00a0doctors from a hospital in a rebel-held area who claimed \u201cthey have found Viagra tablets and condoms in the pockets of dead pro-Gaddafi fighters.\u201d As unlikely as the scenario seemed, the seedy narrative was enough to help cultivate support for another regime change war.<\/p>\n<p>A month after the al-Jazeera report, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice \u201ctold a closed-door meeting of officials at the UN that the Libyan military is using rape as a weapon in the war with the rebels and some had been issued the anti-impotency drug,\u201d NBC News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna42824884\">reported<\/a>. Though Rice offered up no evidence, she \u201craised the Viagra issue\u201d to \u201cpersuade doubters [of] the conflict in Libya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same report, American military and intelligence officials insisted \u201cthere was no evidence\u201d that Viagra was being used by Gaddafi\u2019s forces to abet systematic rape.<\/p>\n<p>However, the absolute lack of concrete evidence did not dissuade ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo from alleging it were true and opening an investigation into the matter on June 9, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the following day, UN investigator Cherif Bassiouni was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-un-rape-idUSTRE75945020110610\">quoted<\/a>\u00a0calling mass rape allegations a \u201cmassive hysteria,\u201d and arguing that there was no proof to support the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the UN special representative for the fight against sexual violence in conflict, Margot Wallstr\u00f6m, backed Moreno Ocampo, declaring she was \u201cconvinced\u201d of the allegations. \u201cThe problem is that very few women come forward to file complaints of rape because it carries serious personal risks for them,\u201d the special representative concluded, effectively acknowledging a dearth of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Wallstr\u00f6m was the inaugural holder of the position of UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. The position was established by Security Council Resolution 1888, introduced by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \u2013 an architect of the regime change war on Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Just a week after the ICC opened its investigation, Clinton pushed the fake news even further,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13803556\">declaring<\/a>\u00a0that rape victims were also being forced to take \u201cvirginity tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just over a decade after the Libyan Viagra allegation appeared to have been put to bed, the current, and third UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict brought it back to life to justify the latest and most intense NATO-backed military campaign against an official enemy.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Patten in June 2022: \u201cWho goes on the battlefield with Viagra?\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Patten\u2019s claim was introduced into Western media thanks to her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20221014-rape-used-in-ukraine-as-a-russian-military-strategy-un\">comment<\/a>\u00a0to Agence France-Presse on October 14 claiming, \u201cWhen you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it\u2019s clearly a military strategy.\u201d But she has actually been pushing the narrative since June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=LCCZGFfgdhE&amp;feature=share&amp;si=EMSIkaIECMiOmarE6JChQQ\">interview<\/a>\u00a0at the so-called US Institute for Peace, a Washington DC-based State Department cut-out, Patten was asked to elaborate on the \u201cissue\u201d of \u201cverification.\u201d Remarking that she had just visited Ukrainian-held territory, Patten noted that she had \u201cmet with many frontline responders, NGOs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Characterizing their testimonies as \u201canecdotal,\u201d Patten noted, \u201cThey all said that the victims do not want to report formally.\u201d Patten then echoed her predecessor at the UN on how security and stigmatization may deter women from reporting rape. While this may be widely acknowledged, the absence of human rights abuse reports is not proof in itself that those abuses are widespread.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like Hillary Clinton, who falsely alleged Libya was conducting \u201cvirginity tests\u201d on innocent women, Patten quickly pivoted from the subject of verification to the alleged heinous acts of Russian soldiers: \u201cThe stigma of \u2014 many reports have referred to victims being told while they are being raped that they will never be able to bear children from Ukrainian men. The rapes have been very brutal. There are reports of the Russian soldiers having Viagra. I mean, who goes on the battlefield with Viagra?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-thmVrvQS-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/thmVrvQS?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0\" width=\"629.328\" height=\"353.9297641025641\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" aria-label=\"VideoPress Video Player\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Patten consulted Ukrainian official who admitted fabricating Russian rape rampage to encourage \u201cvictory for Ukraine\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Though Patten did not identify the NGOs that provided her with testimony, she referred to a meeting with \u201cthe office of the ombudsman for human rights, although she was removed from office last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That envoy was Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine\u2019s human rights commissioner who was fired this spring for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/rus\/articles\/2022\/06\/27\/7354838\/\">falsifying<\/a>\u00a0stories of horrific sexual abuse by Russian soldiers, admitting she did so \u201cbecause she wants victory for Ukraine.\u201d Among the most infamous of her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/ukraine-politics\/russian-atrocities-in-kherson-region-rape-of-children-ukrainian-partisans-resisting.html\">claims<\/a>: a Russian soldier raping a six-month-old girl with a teaspoon.<\/p>\n<p>The role of Denisova in shaping Patten\u2019s narrative was just one of many red flags fluttering over her claims of a Viagra-fueled rape epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>There have been two instances of media reports mentioning the term \u201cViagra\u201d in cases of alleged rape in Ukraine, yet both of them raise separate issues with Patten\u2019s narrative. The first is a BBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-61071243\">report<\/a>\u00a0from April in which a 50-year-old woman claims she was raped by a Chechen and \u201csaved\u201d by Russian soldiers, which contradicts the notion that rape is being encouraged by the Russian military. The second, from May, was more speculative. In a Sky News interview, a Ukrainian woman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukrainian-women-reveal-their-rape-ordeal-and-say-russian-soldiers-must-be-punished-12613584\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0she was raped by a man who she somehow knew to be \u201c19-years-old but so aggressive \u2014 I don\u2019t know, did he take Viagra or maybe some drugs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why a 19-year-old male might find himself in need of drugs for erectile dysfunction is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p>During her June speech at the US Institute of Peace, Patten acknowledged that \u201cthe level of the reports\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the credibility\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the sources of the reports also vary. They have also indicated that many reports are also anonymous, coming through hotlines manned by agencies like UNFPA and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patten did not say what those other agencies fielding testimonies were. It is known, however, that the disgraced former Ukrainian human rights commissioner Denisova had personally established a 24-hour hotline that produced a steady stream of stories that journalists found to be impossible to corroborate.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Patten not only acknowledged a working relationship with Denisova, her fellow fabulist, she noted that she had signed a framework of cooperation with the government of Ukraine to enable a \u201ccoordination of efforts.\u201d As part of the partnership, Patten was fed phony testimonies of a Viagra fueled Russian rampage in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine \u2013 a fact she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AYAxinmll7I?t=61\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0only under pressure from the pranksters Vovan and Lexus.<\/p>\n<p>Patten\u2019s work with the Ukrainian government tracks closely with a career using human rights as a tool for advancing Western geopolitical objectives. Her UN bio states that she spent 1993 to 2002 working at the International Women\u2019s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW), a now-defunct organization born out of the University of Minnesota. Its sister organization, IWRAW Asia Pacific, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IWRAW_AP\">self-proclaimed<\/a>\u00a0\u201cglobal south feminist\u201d NGO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwraw-ap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IWRAW-AP-2020-Annual-Report.pdf\">funded<\/a>\u00a0by US intelligence \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/10\/27\/billionaire-political-meddlers-disinformation-agents-launch-good-information-inc-to-fight-disinformation\/\">overt operative<\/a>\u201d and billionaire hedge funder George Soros, has carried on the torch. Today, the NGO enjoys \u201cSpecial Consultative status\u201d with the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Both IWRAW Asia Pacific and the original IWRAW worked to promote CEDAW, or the \u201cConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,\u201d a treaty body under the umbrella of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Unsurprisingly, after leaving IWRAW, Patten spent more than a decade as a CEDAW member.<\/p>\n<p>An additional conflict of interest arises if the funding of the OHCHR is considered; of its top ten\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-02\/VoluntaryContributions2022.pdf\">funders<\/a>\u00a0this year, excluding the UN itself, all are countries that have sent weapons to Ukraine with the exception of Switzerland. In other words, most of its major funders are belligerents in the proxy war.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Patten occupies a UN position created by Hillary Clinton, where she recycles baseless regime change narratives from over a decade ago to fuel the latest interventionist charade in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2022\/11\/13\/un-envoy-fabricating-viagra-russian\/\">https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2022\/11\/13\/un-envoy-fabricating-viagra-russian\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}