{"id":31486,"date":"2018-02-23T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31486"},"modified":"2018-02-23T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:09:42","slug":"the-coming-wars-to-end-all-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31486","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Wars to End All Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/23\/the-coming-wars-to-end-all-wars\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Coming Wars to End All Wars<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style left-social\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"unset\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to any rational analysis, but not surprising. Trump and Putin are like weird doppelgangers in the liberal imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 John Steppling, \u201cTrump, Putin, and Nikolas Cruz Walk into a Bar\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trump and Netanyahu governments have a problem: How to start a greatly expanded Middle-Eastern war without having a justifiable reason for one.\u00a0 No doubt they are working hard to solve this urgent problem.\u00a0 If they can\u2019t find a \u201cjustification\u201d (which they can\u2019t), they will have to create one (which they will).\u00a0 Or perhaps they will find what they have already created.\u00a0 Whatever the solution, we should feel confident that they are not sitting on their hands. History teaches those who care to learn that when aggressors place a gun on the wall in the first act of their play, it must go off in the final act.<\/p>\n<p>These sinister players have signaled us quite clearly what they have in store.\u00a0 All signs point toward an upcoming large-scale Israeli\/U.S. attack on Lebanon and Syria, and all the sycophantic mainstream media are in the kitchen prepping for the feast.\u00a0 Russia and Iran are the main course, with Lebanon and Syria, who will be devoured first, as the hors d\u2019oeuvres.\u00a0 As always, the media play along as if they don\u2019t yet know what\u2019s coming.\u00a0 Everyone in the know knows what is, just not exactly when.\u00a0 And the media wait with baited breath as they count down to the dramatic moment when they can report the incident that will compel the \u201cinnocent\u201d to attack the \u201cguilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coming Wars to End All Wars \u201cThe compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to any rational analysis, but not surprising. Trump and Putin are like weird doppelgangers in the liberal imagination.\u201d \u2013 John Steppling, \u201cTrump, Putin, and Nikolas Cruz Walk into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4102,135,5493,16936,1049,522,15282,827,862],"class_list":["post-31486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-counterpunch","tag-edward-curtin","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-russiagate","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486\/revisions\/31487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}