{"id":89698,"date":"2025-06-09T07:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89698"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:53:30","slug":"grand-strategy-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89698","title":{"rendered":"Grand Strategy &#8211; A Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you were involved in any way in the 2020 riots in Minneapolis, even as a spectator, you know there was little organic and nothing spontaneous about them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I urge you to read this entire thread about the LA riots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1931953269775188449\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Babies getting tear-gassed?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just eggs for the greater omelette:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/wokal_distance\/status\/1931969380675653932\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The MO points to &#8220;leftist NGOs with deep pockets&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who, how deep and how did they get so deep?<\/p>\n<p>DataRepubliican (yes, another &#8220;X&#8221; thread) has more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DataRepublican\/status\/1931508083127362024\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The major one appears to be &#8220;CHIRLA&#8221; (&#8220;Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights&#8221;).  And yes, <em>course <\/em>you and I are paying for it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DataRepublican\/status\/1931509355633103284\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And, oh yeah. don&#8217;t forget the leftist billionaires:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DataRepublican\/status\/1931514475531882673\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and guess that Big Left&#8217;s A-team was too busy planning in Los Angeles to turn last week&#8217;s fracas in Minneapolis into the riots some clearly so deperately wanted.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were involved in any way in the 2020 riots in Minneapolis, even as a spectator, you know there was little organic and nothing spontaneous about them.\u00a0\u00a0 With that in mind, I urge you to read this entire thread about the LA riots: Babies getting tear-gassed?\u00a0 \u00a0 They&#8217;re just eggs for the greater omelette: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,323,24,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-culture-war","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89698","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=89698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89699,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89698\/revisions\/89699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}