{"id":81073,"date":"2022-03-07T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81073"},"modified":"2022-03-07T05:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:01:29","slug":"obvious-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81073","title":{"rendered":"Obvious + Impossible"},"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>This author suggests Ukraine should have adopted the Finland model:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/03\/finlands-model-resisting-russian-aggression\/623334\/\"> every citizen a citizen-soldier.<\/a>  Makes sense to me, and also aligns with the &#8220;well-regulated militia&#8221; concept of the Second Amendment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Point of order: the Finnish (And the very similar Swiss and Israeli) models presume that service in the military is part of a citizens duty to the stage, like paying taxes and serving on juries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For millions of Americans, you wouldn&#8217;t even need to issue weapons.  We have them already.  Just give us a couple of weeks&#8217; training in small unit movement, ambush basics, sniping, asymmetrical warfare, guerilla tactics.  Conquest by invasion would be impossible.  The Wolverines would prevent it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Of course, giving people military training assumes the government trusts its own citizens and vice versa.  Can we say that with confidence in America today? <\/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>We can, of course, assume those such thing; in fact, the Government\/Media-Industrial complex has spent the last 40 years demonizing the concept of \u201cthe militia\u201c to a fine sheen &#8211; One might assume, to protect itself from any organized opposition. At the moment, the social cost of supporting, much less belonging to, a \u201cmilitia\u201c, are just too high, whatever the finer points of constitutional ideals, for the average schmuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This author suggests Ukraine should have adopted the Finland model: every citizen a citizen-soldier. Makes sense to me, and also aligns with the &#8220;well-regulated militia&#8221; concept of the Second Amendment. Point of order: the Finnish (And the very similar Swiss and Israeli) models presume that service in the military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,30,1,22,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-liberty","category-uncategorized","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81073","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=81073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81074,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81073\/revisions\/81074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}