{"id":35385,"date":"2022-02-24T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35385"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:40:45","slug":"a-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/24\/a-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"One Politician&#8217;s Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) gives his view of the Ukrainian situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take a minute to watch this. It&#39;s tempting to view Putin as some world-dominating mastermind. But that&#39;s not what&#39;s happening here. At all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3fvrkPCI4m\">pic.twitter.com\/3fvrkPCI4m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/1494428782823890944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Does he know what he&#8217;s talking about? Is he being truthful? I sure wish I knew a historian with relevant chops, because this is beyond my expertise and time to research. I could say his body language and communications style suggests he&#8217;s being truthful, but such readings are not dispositive and can even be misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The next few days will cast some light on Murphy&#8217;s message. Personally, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/22\/the-march-to-the-metaphorical-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as I implied here<\/a>, I hope the Russian oligarchs will take note of their evaporating fortunes and suddenly impel Putin to either withdraw, or resign.<\/p>\n<p>Take that as you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) gives his view of the Ukrainian situation: Take a minute to watch this. It&#39;s tempting to view Putin as some world-dominating mastermind. But that&#39;s not what&#39;s happening here. At all. pic.twitter.com\/3fvrkPCI4m &mdash; Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 17, 2022 Does he know what he&#8217;s talking about? Is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/24\/a-summary\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35387,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35385\/revisions\/35387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}