{"id":54910,"date":"2023-05-15T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54910"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:28:05","slug":"ukraine-war-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54910","title":{"rendered":"Russians are repeating their mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard it said about those who do not learn from their mistakes, correct?<\/p>\n<p>The leading aphorism comes from the Spanish philosopher George Santayana, who said: &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It looks to me as though the Russians are learning that lesson the hard way, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>What we once knew as the Soviet Union decided in 1980 to invade Afghanistan, attempting to install a Kremlin-friendly regime in Kabul. The Afghans were fighting for their lives and for the future of their country and then proceeded to kick the Soviets&#8217; backsides out of Afghanistan eight years later.<\/p>\n<p>They had help from sources, such as the U.S. Congress, which appropriated money to supply the Afghan fighters with anti-aircraft missiles, which they used with stunning efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to early 2022. Russia decided to invade Ukraine, again to install a regime friendly to autocrats who run the Kremlin. The Ukrainians, like the Afghans before them, are fighting for their sovereignty &#8230; and are actually winning the war on the battlefield. Once again, the Ukrainians are being helped by arms coming from multiple allied nations that also are appalled at the Russians&#8217; illegal and immoral effort to subdue a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>Can it possibly be that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is too stupid to understand the wisdom of a learned Spanish thinker?<\/p>\n<p>Stupid? It&#8217;s possible &#8230; along with too arrogant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard it said about those who do not learn from their mistakes, correct? The leading aphorism comes from the Spanish philosopher George Santayana, who said: &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221; It looks to me as though the Russians are learning that lesson the hard way, in real time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russians are repeating their mistakes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[168,7018,9899,6681],"class_list":["post-54910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-putin","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54911,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions\/54911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}