{"id":142834,"date":"2025-08-18T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?guid=227ecd3d8eb06591ab5c9d953a865bd0"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:48:00","slug":"never-appease-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=142834","title":{"rendered":"Never Appease Bullies!"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy<br \/>\nAppeasing a bully is like paying a blackmailer: they always want more. jc<br \/>\nAfter the so-called &quot;Alaska Summit&quot; recently between supplicant D. Tr*mp and Russia&#8217;s dictator V. Put*n, some pundits have called the photo op for the Russian dictator &quot;appeasement&quot; which recalls the historical appeasement of A. Hitler by Britain&#8217;s PM Neville Chamberlain. Needless to<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=142834\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[14932,13615,17859,17860,12853,17861,8010,17862,17863,7023,17589],"class_list":["post-142834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-12-south","tag-15-south","tag-appeasement-of-hitler","tag-appeasement-of-putin","tag-czech-republic","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-donald-trump","tag-munich-agreement","tag-neville-chamberlain","tag-ukraine","tag-uranus-neptune-conjunction-s-1993"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-B9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142835,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142834\/revisions\/142835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}