{"id":1710,"date":"2022-12-28T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/rod-is-right\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:04:07","slug":"rod-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/rod-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/its-groundhog-day-for-tac-and-our-supporters\/\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">. . . in a turn of fate that is like something out of Greek mythology, the United States is once again fully committed to a war of choice with unpredictable consequences. Except this time, it&#39;s a proxy war against a nuclear superpower. As John Mearsheimer has warned, we are playing Russian roulette with nuclear missiles in the chamber. And yet, all of official Washington, as well as the Establishment&#39;s media mouthpieces, are cheering on this war, with urgently necessary discussion about the national security interests of the US in this matter, the war&#39;s endgame, and suchlike, shoved to the side so Very Important People of the unified War Party can carry on about how Ukraine&#39;s fate is the most important issue facing our country &#8212; and anybody who raises a peep of protest is plainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=simping\">simping<\/a> for Putin. [Hyperlink added.]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here: . . . in a turn of fate that is like something out of Greek mythology, the United States is once again fully committed to a war of choice with unpredictable consequences. Except this time, it&#39;s a proxy war against a nuclear superpower. As John Mearsheimer has warned, we are playing Russian roulette with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/rod-is-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rod is Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}