{"id":1763,"date":"2023-03-05T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2023-03-05T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T12:21:50","slug":"war-in-europe-weeks-53-and-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/05\/war-in-europe-weeks-53-and-54\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Europe, weeks 53 and 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year in, the Tsar is still indiscriminately terrorizing and murdering people in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>I have deep contempt for our Left (and Right, of course), who condone the Tsar&#8217;s actions and belittle the horrors he&#8217;s inflicting on innocent civilians. He&#8217;s a fascist dictator and a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Russian scholars do not believe that there will be peace while the current Tsar is ruling Russia; they say that his goal is a state of perpetual war against the West rather than winning. Some scholars suggest that he might stop once East Germany is back under Russian influence and control.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we have no other chance than to push back and defend our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>To enjoy our freedom, we will need a livable planet, and there we face another enemy: Corporate greed and ignorant politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend we had a powerful global strike with one of the largest unions in Germany &#8211; we will need to stop using fossil fuels now, including for personal transportation. Or, as we fondly say: Car is over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1764\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-1024x470.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-1536x705.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_20230303_121216_2-2048x940.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Early buildup for the bicycle rally, Global Climate Strike, Cologne, 3\/3\/23)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year in, the Tsar is still indiscriminately terrorizing and murdering people in Ukraine. I have deep contempt for our Left (and Right, of course), who condone the Tsar&#8217;s actions and belittle the horrors he&#8217;s inflicting on innocent civilians. He&#8217;s a fascist dictator and a terrorist. Russian scholars do not believe that there will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/05\/war-in-europe-weeks-53-and-54\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War in Europe, weeks 53 and 54<\/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-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-sr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}