{"id":1726,"date":"2022-12-25T06:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2022-12-25T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T17:17:10","slug":"war-in-europe-week-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/25\/war-in-europe-week-44\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Europe, week 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2022: Ten months ago, the Tsar invaded Ukraine and, to this day, continues to slaughter the Ukrainian people and destroy their civil infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>What has begun as a &#8220;special military operation&#8221; has officially become a full-fledged war and will leave both countries utterly devastated for decades. All because of one deluded male who wants to secure his place in history.<\/p>\n<p>The Tsar has few remaining allies; one is Iran supplying weapons to Russia to kill more Ukrainians while simultaneously killing their people for protesting.<\/p>\n<p>And my government is still not sending tanks.<\/p>\n<p>This week I <a href=\"https:\/\/fediscience.org\/@npariente\/109573808378537734\">learned<\/a> that &#8220;Carol of the Bells&#8221; is a beautiful Ukrainian song <span lang=\"uk\">\u0429\u0435\u0434\u0440\u0438\u043a<\/span>, sung on New Year&#8217;s evening.<\/p>\n<p>Covid is ravaging China, and our hospitals are fully occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Greens are still poised to help RWE burn more coal.<a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1727\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-1536x840.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221217_161247-2048x1120.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(1.5-degree border, L\u00fctzerath, 12\/17\/22)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2022: Ten months ago, the Tsar invaded Ukraine and, to this day, continues to slaughter the Ukrainian people and destroy their civil infrastructure. What has begun as a &#8220;special military operation&#8221; has officially become a full-fledged war and will leave both countries utterly devastated for decades. All because of one deluded male who wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/25\/war-in-europe-week-44\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War in Europe, week 44<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-rQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}