{"id":17191,"date":"2022-03-08T14:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17191"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:19:16","slug":"thumping-blundering-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/thumping-blundering-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumping Blundering to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Media elite believe that Americans will happily pay soaring gas prices to &quot;virtue signal&quot; their support for Ukraine.  This is almost as foolhardy as Putin&#39;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1501203070033801220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoFlyZoneOverUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine<\/a> protest would be more realistic with some massive blasts to rattle all the artists&#39; teeth, symbolizing the risk of WWIII from shooting down Russian planes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBbikEP6h2\">https:\/\/t.co\/vBbikEP6h2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1501285109164433409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When did swallowing &amp; re-tweeting brazenly false war propaganda become the ultimate virtue signaling? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NP4jCWPC2H\">https:\/\/t.co\/NP4jCWPC2H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500142329017032709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marcorubio<\/a> is being vilified on Twitter as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarcoRubles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarcoRubles<\/a> in part for opposing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoFlyZoneOverUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine<\/a>. So anyone who opposes virtue signaling our way to WWIII is now a villain?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500848566566326272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Championing policies that would spur World War III is the new D.C. media definition of &quot;peace activist&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mn6jYSEc2c\">https:\/\/t.co\/mn6jYSEc2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500890124783132680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Total illiteracy on history is a job requirement for pundits nowadays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/teiem5lQq9\">https:\/\/t.co\/teiem5lQq9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500862575814356993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A professional fighter explains why fighting in Ukraine is folly. He says he doesn&#39;t know the facts of the matter. Biden admin. is withholding vast majority of documents on UK &amp; cherrypicking disclosures. No reason to trust &#39;em <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bgXcbFsLSZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/bgXcbFsLSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500280183730884614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">74% of Americans surveyed support a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoFlyZoneOverUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine<\/a>.  Do people think that a No Fly Zone is simply a moral magic wand that will miraculously make the killing stop? Virtue signaling to WWIII <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Arm5Hh8c7x\">https:\/\/t.co\/Arm5Hh8c7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1499940321286922245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden administration speedily declassified list of weapons it recently shipped Ukraine. Why not declassify all the documents from last 10 years on U.S. interventions in Ukraine? Americans deserve to know <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vlM67ZcPU2\">https:\/\/t.co\/vlM67ZcPU2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500106770068422656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Didn&#39;t &quot;experts&quot; say the same thing when Obama bombed Libya in 2011, setting off chaos, civil war, &amp; slave markets?  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7OMtOYRqEA\">https:\/\/t.co\/7OMtOYRqEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1500933251300478978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Until the U.S. govt. opens their own files on the last 10 years&#39; interventions in Ukraine, there is no reason to presume that U.S. govt. assertions are more credible than a Biden press conference <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v5XmTpptLV\">https:\/\/t.co\/v5XmTpptLV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1501366646073708549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden&#39;s political survival hinges on blaming Putin for soaring gas prices.  But I predicted that inflation would bankrupt Biden even before Putin invaded.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ni43JBfRUe\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ni43JBfRUe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6YhWGZho0T\">https:\/\/t.co\/6YhWGZho0T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1501358471177986052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media elite believe that Americans will happily pay soaring gas prices to &quot;virtue signal&quot; their support for Ukraine. This is almost as foolhardy as Putin&#39;s invasion of Ukraine. &mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) March 8, 2022 This #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine protest would be more realistic with some massive blasts to rattle all the artists&#39; teeth, symbolizing the risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,3193,27,3192,2006,923,1107,75,1081],"class_list":["post-17191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-kerry","tag-lying","tag-no-fly-zone","tag-peace","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-world-war-iii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thumping Blundering to War - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biden administration blunders closer to direct military conflict with Russia. 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