{"id":18927,"date":"2022-05-17T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18927"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:27:14","slug":"a-segment-of-the-left-is-growing-afraid-of-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/17\/a-segment-of-the-left-is-growing-afraid-of-the-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Segment of the Left is Growing Afraid of the Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the narrative of &#8220;fight to the last Ukrainian&#8221; is losing ground to the reality of what war with Russia will actually entail.\u00a0 The NY Times, the establishment paper of record is beginning to question the wisdom of confronting Russia without limit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"aNOD43YtZl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2022\/05\/ny-times-shifts-pro-war-narrative\/\">NY Times shifts pro-war narrative<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;NY Times shifts pro-war narrative&#8221; &#8212; Asia Times\" src=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2022\/05\/ny-times-shifts-pro-war-narrative\/embed\/#?secret=ZocoMIRT0n#?secret=aNOD43YtZl\" data-secret=\"aNOD43YtZl\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even among leftists there is a limit to self-delusion.\u00a0 Thinking about the consequences of baiting a nuclear power unnecessarily gives pause for even such true believers as the denizens of the Gray Lady.\u00a0 Maybe there is hope that the stupidity of the Biden State Department will be reined in by whoever is actually running the country.\u00a0 But I wouldn&#8217;t depend on our luck holding out until then.\u00a0 Best to lay in a supply of iodine pills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the narrative of &#8220;fight to the last Ukrainian&#8221; is losing ground to the reality of what war with Russia will actually entail.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3519,3107,3568],"class_list":["post-18927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-failed-biden-presidency","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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