{"id":2908,"date":"2022-03-16T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:29:23","slug":"march-exclusion-sixteenth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2908","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 sixteenth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cPlutarch states that Cato \u2018undertook the service of the state as the proper business of an honest man.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Thomas E Ricks, <em>First Principles<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the belligerents are making overtures to de-escalate the conflict, why are many so-called leaders failing to soften their hawkish stance in favor of advocating for peace? When the president of Ukraine (still alive) invites a negotiated settlement based on the offered demands, why is the elite \u201cinfluence class\u201d pushing emotionalism and reckless militarism? Who will benefit from instability, destruction, bloodshed, and death in excess of what the Russians have factored into an achievable outcome? Another potential question: why didn\u2019t Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy stop playing the NATO card long before his nation was ruined? Was he naive, complicit, or merely a dupe? What happens next is unknown, but, without a doubt, analysts will argue over all of this for the rest of my lifetime. The hellish suffering will forge new cadres of radicalized youth and hardened ideologues. Welcome to the ancient steppes of Eurasia.<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t go into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdwatchingusa.org\/multiple-crow-meaning-and-symbolism\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what I\u00f1igo Navarro says about seeing multiple crows<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Five crows resting high in the \u201cSimon Kenton\u201d maple, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> as they noisily greet number six and seven to the murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlutarch states that Cato \u2018undertook the service of the state as the proper business of an honest man.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Thomas E Ricks, First Principles &nbsp; When the belligerents are making overtures to de-escalate the conflict, why are many so-called leaders failing to soften their hawkish stance in favor of advocating for peace? When the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,68,18,11,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}