{"id":80891,"date":"2022-02-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80891"},"modified":"2022-02-13T09:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:01:48","slug":"like-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80891","title":{"rendered":"Like Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Am I the only one with a sneaking hunch that Putin knows he’s up against the Western B-team, and is going to operate unconcerned about any western response<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an outspoken interview yesterday, Viktor Tatarintsev told the country’s Aftonbladet newspaper that ‘the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian response will be’. <\/p>

He claimed Russia had become more ‘self-sufficient’ amid the threat of sanctions and accused the West of not understanding his country. <\/p>

‘We are more self-sufficient and have been able to increase our exports. We have no Italian or Swiss cheeses, but we’ve learned to make just as good Russian cheeses using Italian and Swiss recipes’, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is something the smart people have been warning about for half a century; “globalization” in and of itself only when all parties involved are more or less completely “globalized”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

International sanctions can have an effect on Spain, by Spain’s choice, or on Saudi Arabia because of the markets they chose to enter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Countries that can make themselves self-sufficient on at least the level of necessities? Like (in theory) Russia, or China?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect Putin knows he’s dealing with a whole cabinet full of Neville Chamberlains (which is a bit of a gratuitous slam against Chamberlain, who at least realized he’d been had, albeit too late). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I the only one with a sneaking hunch that Putin knows he’s up against the Western B-team, and is going to operate unconcerned about any western response? In an outspoken interview yesterday, Viktor Tatarintsev told the country’s Aftonbladet newspaper that ‘the more the West pushes Russia, the stronger the Russian response will be’.  He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891","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=80891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions\/80894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}