{"id":81046,"date":"2022-03-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81046"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T03:57:58","slug":"polite-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81046","title":{"rendered":"Polite Invasion"},"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>Russia invades Ukraine, a massive war on par with WW II.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/feb\/24\/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-begins-in-pictures\">Photos don&#8217;t look like it<\/a>.  Looks pretty quiet to me.  Cleanest war since January 6th.<br><br>One wrecked bus shelter.  A traffic jam of cars leaving town. People talking on cell phones, waiting to catch public transportation.  This could be Minneapolis any day of the week.<br><br>There&#8217;s one radar antenna damaged and one apartment building on fire (I wonder if it was accidentally hit by rounds intended for the military installation which fell short, or if it was set on fire by mostly peaceful protesters?)  Nobody pushing a wheelbarrow with all their belongings.  No mile-long columns of marching soldiers.  No piles of bodies in the streets.<br><br>Ukraine has had weeks to fortify the area but apparently did not.  I see no reason the US should do it now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Oh wait, scroll down a bit to the blonde wearing pink.  Now I understand why Lesko Brandon wants the United States involved.  I&#8217;ll bet her hair smells terrific.  <\/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>Events have perhaps left some of the events in this email behind in recent days\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Russia invades Ukraine, a massive war on par with WW II. Photos don&#8217;t look like it. Looks pretty quiet to me. Cleanest war since January 6th. One wrecked bus shelter. A traffic jam of cars leaving town. People talking on cell phones, waiting to catch public transportation. This could [&hellip;]<\/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-81046","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\/81046","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=81046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81047,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81046\/revisions\/81047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}