{"id":64529,"date":"2022-12-25T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64529"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:34:26","slug":"dave-collums-2022-year-in-review-part-1-all-roads-lead-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64529","title":{"rendered":"Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 1: All Roads Lead To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 1: All Roads Lead To Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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This Year in Review is brought to you by Pfizer, FTX, and Raytheon…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every year,\u00a0David Collum<\/a>\u00a0writes a detailed \u201cYear in Review\u201d synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year\u2019s is no exception, with Dave striking again in his usually poignant and delightfully acerbic way.<\/em><\/p>\n

To download\u00a0Part 1<\/strong>\u00a0as a pdf, click here:\u00a02022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every year, I write an annual survey of what happened in the world. After posting at Peak Prosperity, it gets a bump from the putative commies at Zerohedge1<\/a>,2<\/a>,3<\/a>,4<\/a>\u00a0who I read religiously. (I have topped over 60 cameo appearances at Zerohedge, consistent with getting booted off Twitter four times.) Why do I write it? My best answer is that you do not understand something until you have written your ideas down coherently. I am also trying to figure out who keeps yelling \u201cBeetlejuice!\u201d<\/p>\n

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.<\/p>\n

~ J. B. Priestley, English novelist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I break every rule of blog marketing. Nobody writes one gigantic blog a year, but it makes the rounds. It is onerous and exhausting, especially since I must necessarily procrastinate up to the deadline.<\/p>\n

2022: The Year I spent reading Dave Collum\u2019s 2021 Year In Review.<\/p>\n

~ Commenter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most years, I write what I can and then wrap it. In 2021, however, I had a primal drive to cover the usual stuff plus two topics that do not lend themselves to abbreviation: the Covid pandemic and rising global authoritarianism. Many are now realizing that the former is a manifestation of the latter. While I may not have been correct I had to get it right\u2026if that makes any sense…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 1: All Roads Lead To Ukraine This Year in Review is brought to you by Pfizer, FTX, and Raytheon… Every year,\u00a0David Collum\u00a0writes a detailed \u201cYear in Review\u201d synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year\u2019s is no exception, with Dave striking again in his usually […]<\/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":[2,5,6],"tags":[32210,29341,11255,33389,13709,4778,821,11134,4318],"class_list":["post-64529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-32210","tag-covid","tag-david-collum","tag-ftx","tag-pfizer","tag-raytheon","tag-ukraine","tag-year-in-review","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64529","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=64529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64530,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64529\/revisions\/64530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}