{"id":80577,"date":"2022-01-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80577"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:02:43","slug":"rumor-of-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80577","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Of War"},"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>Ukraine and Kazakhstan border on Russia.  They are all mobilizing troops along the borders. <\/p><p><br \/>Secretary of State Blinken says NATO never promised not to admit new members, and that the United States is fully committed to defending the principles NATO stands for.  The US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/544664-us-warship-mediterranean-ukraine\/\">has moved an aircraft carrier group into position<\/a> in preparation to defend those principles.<\/p><p><br \/>China and Taiwan both agree there is only one China; they disagree whether the mainland or the island is the wayward province which should be ruled by the other.  Lesko Brandon said <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/us-cleans-bidens-commitment-defend-taiwan-chinese-invasion\/story?id=80727528\">the United States will defend Taiwan<\/a> if China moves against it.  <\/p><p><br \/>Defense experts argue over whether Brandon should get the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realcleardefense.com\/articles\/2022\/01\/03\/the_united_states_should_avoid_waging_a_two-front_cold_war_810260.html#!\">US involved in a two-front war<\/a>, or only one land war in Asia.  <\/p><p><br \/>I ask why the United States is promising to go to war against Russia and China at all?   What is our vital national interest in Ukraine?  How many Americans should die for Kazakhstan?   We already have hyperinflation caused by dumping Covid money into the economy &#8211; how will we pay for a war against China?<\/p><p><br \/>The United States played World Policeman for a century.  It&#8217;s time to end the farce.  We should solve our problems at home before attempting to solve problems elsewhere.  <\/p><p><br \/>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m half expecting a whole lot of government push on the patriotism of supporting the war effort.  Just like our victorious vaccination drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Ukraine and Kazakhstan border on Russia. They are all mobilizing troops along the borders. Secretary of State Blinken says NATO never promised not to admit new members, and that the United States is fully committed to defending the principles NATO stands for. The US has moved an aircraft carrier [&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-80577","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":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80579,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80577\/revisions\/80579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}