{"id":3306,"date":"2025-06-15T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:03:23","slug":"the-runes-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/the-runes-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Runes of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine I said to a military friend &#8216;we&#8217;re all going to be tested now&#8217;. Hamas&#8217; pogrom in Israel was more of a shock that hatred could till be so visceral and barbaric and that is after watching the bombing of Iraq. But as I listen to everyone talking ang moaning on about a regional war i realise that modern Iran is nothing like Nazi Germany. It talks the same way but it is more like fascist Italy and really of no consequence to the world.<\/p>\n<p>The real world problem is &#8216;what will China do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At least this is the last time for a while I ned to repeat this: Praeterea, puto arma nuclearia Persiae delenda esse ( I think, therefore, the nuclear weapons of Persia must be destroyed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine I said to a military friend &#8216;we&#8217;re all going to be tested now&#8217;. Hamas&#8217; pogrom in Israel was more of a shock that hatred could till be so visceral and barbaric and that is after watching the bombing of Iraq. But as I listen to everyone talking ang moaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[139,374],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-china","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}