{"id":35570,"date":"2022-03-26T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35570"},"modified":"2022-03-26T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T21:36:11","slug":"on-the-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/26\/on-the-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/25\/putin-could-take-a-catastropic-step\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F366811b%2F623defb63e6ed13ade3b9cb7%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F51%2F72%2F623defb63e6ed13ade3b9cb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpfully pointed<\/a> me at Herman Khan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.baloogancampaign.com\/index.php?title=Kahn%27s_Escalation_Ladder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Escalation Ladder<\/em><\/a>, of which I&#8217;d never heard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35571\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?resize=600%2C1084&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?resize=166%2C300&amp;ssl=1 166w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?resize=567%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 567w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ladder-of-war.jpg?resize=83%2C150&amp;ssl=1 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sort of psychological dissertation on how to intimidate civilian leaders is how I take it. It&#8217;s a bit fascinating and a bit horrifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George F. Will helpfully pointed me at Herman Khan&#8217;s Escalation Ladder, of which I&#8217;d never heard: A sort of psychological dissertation on how to intimidate civilian leaders is how I take it. It&#8217;s a bit fascinating and a bit horrifying.<\/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-35570","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\/35570","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=35570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35572,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570\/revisions\/35572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}