{"id":85900,"date":"2026-08-27T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85900"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:20:18","slug":"cia-chief-used-moscow-visit-to-warn-russia-against-attacks-on-nato-allies-helping-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cia-chief-used-moscow-visit-to-warn-russia-against-attacks-on-nato-allies-helping-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Chief Used Moscow Visit To Warn Russia Against Attacks On NATO Allies, Helping Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Politico<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]\" data-testid=\"plain-text-block\">CIA Director\u00a0John Ratcliffe\u00a0warned Russian officials in Moscow this week not to escalate conflict with America\u2019s NATO allies, in particular Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in response to Moscow\u2019s stalemated invasion of Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-text text-[length:var(--dimension-typescale-body-l)] text-[var(--color-text-primary)] leading-[1.6] mt-5 md:mt-[1.875rem]\" data-testid=\"plain-text-block\">The U.S. spy chief also used the rare, unannounced trip to the Russian capital on Tuesday to press Russia to reduce military and economic support for Iran, according to one of those two people and a U.K. official with knowledge of the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Politico: CIA Director\u00a0John Ratcliffe\u00a0warned Russian officials in Moscow this week not to escalate conflict with America\u2019s NATO allies, in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85901,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85900\/revisions\/85901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}