{"id":177479,"date":"2024-06-17T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177479"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:10:17","slug":"the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/17\/the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The End?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">There are three choices:<br><br>#1 Abandon Ukraine and hope for the best = Russia continues with its territorial ambitions<br><br>#2  Support Ukraine to keep fighting until they have no will left to do so. A long war many deaths and Ukraine still loses  = Russia continues with its territorial ambitions<br><br>#3 NATO becomes directly involved. = Conventional WW111 but with the potential for Western Europe \/UK to be destroyed if conflict goes nuclear <br>At that point it is  more lightly just before US maybe drops out of NATO?<br>Nigel Farage becomes Putin&#8217;s right hand man along with his friend Steve Bannon.<br><br>Everybody dies in #3 <br><br>#1 and #2 only thousands of people die and Russia wins.<br><br>#4 Barbie\/Disney version = Complete and utter regime change in Russia. Roll titles, pink sunset and everybody lives happily ever<br><br>And what ever happens Palestine is screwed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-orange-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Here is a song for you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1790087629&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=true&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/happy-apocalypse\" title=\"Happy Apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Apocalypse<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"712\" data-attachment-id=\"177531\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/17\/the-end\/i-dont-bite-much\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?fit=2172%2C2558&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2172,2558\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1718631120&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.076923076923077&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I-dont-bite-much\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?fit=604%2C712&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much-869x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C712&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Diana Stone Music\" class=\"wp-image-177531\" style=\"width:351px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?resize=869%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 869w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?resize=768%2C904&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?resize=1304%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?resize=1739%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1739w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/I-dont-bite-much.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three choices: #1 Abandon Ukraine and hope for the best = Russia continues with its territorial ambitions #2 Support Ukraine to keep fighting until they have no will left to do so. A long war many deaths and Ukraine still loses = Russia continues with its territorial ambitions #3 NATO becomes directly involved. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/06\/17\/the-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,60,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kaz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178693,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/02\/21\/world-on-the-brink\/","url_meta":{"origin":177479,"position":0},"title":"World On The Brink?","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's getting very weird out there. Scary times. The world feels much more like it did in the early 60s with massive global instability. So what will this mean to the rest of us watching from the sidelines? 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Plus some Cherry blossoms I think. 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One is compelled to watch the unfolding disaster and fight the strong urge to hide behind the sofa. I don't see it running for an extended season somehow. And all the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175280,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/03\/13\/can-everyone-hear-me-at-the-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":177479,"position":3},"title":"Can Everyone Hear Me At The Back","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Well the news is not getting any better is it? 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I have very little confidence about going out socially on my own at present, (though I do have abit of social contact but really not quite enough) and it is making me feel a bit isolated. 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