{"id":2402,"date":"2017-03-31T04:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:19","slug":"just-curious-about-russiamania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/just-curious-about-russiamania\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Curious About Russiamania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2404 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks.jpg\" alt=\"Russians15cossacks\" width=\"618\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks.jpg 700w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-231x150.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/>\u00a0Is it me or are we getting as a nation a bit crazy on the Russian thing? They are a people badly led who are trying to get some for their country with a lousy hand of cards. Is anyone here worried that they are doing anything we do not expect?<\/p>\n<p>The fix to beat back Russia is letting them know where we will stop them and oil in the $40 range. Are they going to play cyber games? Of course, along with every other nation and private groups, including us.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing? If Trump was a Russian stooge, his moves on oil , gas and coal are about as bad as can be for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Someone tell me where I am wrong here. I am losing interest in the breathlessness of media reporting on this. It is not missiles in Cuba with permission to fire if we set foot on the island.\u00a0 That was scary. This? Pshaw on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2402\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2402\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2404 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks.jpg\" alt=\"Russians15cossacks\" width=\"618\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks.jpg 700w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Russians15cossacks-231x150.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/>\u00a0Is it me or are we getting as a nation a bit crazy on the Russian thing? They are a people badly led who are trying to get some for their country with a lousy hand of cards. Is anyone here worried that they are doing anything we do not expect?<\/p>\n<p>The fix to beat back Russia is letting them know where we will stop them and oil in the $40 range. Are they going to play cyber games? Of course, along with every other nation and private groups, including us.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing? If Trump was a Russian stooge, his moves on oil &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/just-curious-about-russiamania\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}