{"id":76058,"date":"2020-12-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76058"},"modified":"2020-12-09T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:58:01","slug":"how-does-one-say-bergs-seventh-law-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76058","title":{"rendered":"How Does<\/i> One Say “Berg’s Seventh Law” In Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You may find yourself looking back at the past four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may find yourself wondering “why did <\/em>the Democrats spend so much time and effort pushing the “Russian Collusion” hoax?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you may say to yourself “Russia? They’re a paper tiger in a demographic spiral, keeping themselves afloat with arms sales and natural gas exports. They exert a tiny shadow of their influence compared even to thirty years ago”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you may ask yourself “Why does this make sense?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you may answer that question with a hearty “Berg’s Seventh Law explains it all”, as is usually the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese intelligence has apparently been cultivating contacts among American politicians<\/a> for years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China\u2019s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, Axios found in a yearlong investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Keeping Berg’s 7th Law, and four years of chanting points about “collusion with Russia” in mind, any guesses which party their efforts were aimed at?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may find yourself looking back at the past four years. You may find yourself wondering “why did the Democrats spend so much time and effort pushing the “Russian Collusion” hoax? And you may say to yourself “Russia? They’re a paper tiger in a demographic spiral, keeping themselves afloat with arms sales and natural gas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76059,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76058\/revisions\/76059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}