{"id":79383,"date":"2021-08-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79383"},"modified":"2021-08-30T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:45:13","slug":"the-first-domino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79383","title":{"rendered":"The First Domino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So the US got tossed out of Afghanistan, so what?  How does our retreat-in-disgrace affect the rest of the world? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Maybe not so good.  If the US isn&#8217;t willing or able to exercise competent military actions, the nations which have been relying on us for defense, begin to look vulnerable.   They might need to arm themselves to defend themselves, or risk be conquered by rivals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/afghanistan-first-domino-fall\">Domino theory is back<\/a> and I&#8217;m wondering how many weapons and how much ammunition will be required to survive the fall of the final domino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan has got to be seriously rethinking its post World War II agreements on military posture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: So the US got tossed out of Afghanistan, so what? How does our retreat-in-disgrace affect the rest of the world? Maybe not so good. If the US isn&#8217;t willing or able to exercise competent military actions, the nations which have been relying on us for defense, begin to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,131,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-afghan-debacle","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383","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=79383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383\/revisions\/79384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}