{"id":13646,"date":"2025-09-24T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/inside-a-voyage-with-nato-on-the-baltic-sea-one-of-russias-most-coveted-waterways\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:20:42","slug":"inside-a-voyage-with-nato-on-the-baltic-sea-one-of-russias-most-coveted-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/inside-a-voyage-with-nato-on-the-baltic-sea-one-of-russias-most-coveted-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a voyage with NATO on the Baltic Sea, one of Russia\u2019s most coveted waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, many pundits and politicians thought the Baltic Sea could become what some have colloquially dubbed &ldquo;NATO Lake.&rdquo;  The concept: a body of water practically dominated by Western shipping, with enforcement belonging almost exclusively to NATO states and a minimal-at-best Russian presence. The war in Ukraine actually gave momentum to the idea&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5516784-russian-shadow-fleet-baltic\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, many pundits and politicians thought the Baltic Sea could become what some have colloquially dubbed &ldquo;NATO Lake.&rdquo; The concept: a body of water practically dominated by Western shipping, with enforcement belonging almost exclusively to NATO states and a minimal-at-best Russian presence. The war in Ukraine actually gave momentum to the idea&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}