{"id":35485,"date":"2022-03-11T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T03:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35485"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T03:27:45","slug":"history-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/11\/history-rhymes\/","title":{"rendered":"History Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I should be taking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/3\/11\/2085312\/-Head-of-Ukrainian-Anti-Corruption-Agency-Thanks-Russian-Minister-of-Defense?pm_source=story_sidebar&amp;pm_medium=web&amp;pm_campaign=recommended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>, concerning a letter from a Ukraine official to the Russian Defense Minister on various bits of sub-standard military gear found in Ukraine on Russian tanks, from Irenaeus on <strong><em>Daily Kos<\/em><\/strong> seriously:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In particular, the\u00a0<em><strong>protection of Russian tanks T-72 and T-80 made from cardboard egg trays<\/strong><\/em>. Without a doubt, these means of protecting military equipment deserve to become a separate assessment factor in the PowerIndex when forming the Global Firepower rating of the strongest armies in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are corroborating pictures.<\/p>\n<p>And they remind me of my school lessons in High School, when they claimed Russian arms merchants of World War I were delivering arms and munitions that not only didn&#8217;t work, but couldn&#8217;t work &#8211; replacement of gunpowder with sand, for example &#8211; all due, again, to corruption at the highest levels.<\/p>\n<p>History rhymes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I should be taking this post, concerning a letter from a Ukraine official to the Russian Defense Minister on various bits of sub-standard military gear found in Ukraine on Russian tanks, from Irenaeus on Daily Kos seriously: In particular, the\u00a0protection of Russian tanks T-72 and T-80 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/11\/history-rhymes\/\"> 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-35485","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\/35485","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=35485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35486,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions\/35486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}