{"id":16658,"date":"2025-03-07T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16658"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:54:41","slug":"romes-weak-hand-won-a-war-can-ukraine-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16658","title":{"rendered":"Rome\u2019s \u2018Weak Hand\u2019 Won a War\u2014Can Ukraine Do the Same?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;France supported the fledgling continental army for about four years with supplies, weapons, advisors, men; you know, [the army got many of its words from the French]. Yeah, I don&#8217;t recall France ever telling the U.S. they should just surrender to England. You don&#8217;t bend the knee to Communists and dictators&#8230;you punch them in the face until they stop. If we bend the knee to Russia now, how long will it be until we beg the dragon that rises in the East to please eat us last?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rome\u2019s \u2018Weak Hand\u2019 Won a War\u2014Can Ukraine Do the Same?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-QXz9wotrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;France supported the fledgling continental army for about four years with supplies, weapons, advisors, men; you know, [the army got many of its words from the French]. Yeah, I don&#8217;t recall France ever telling the U.S. they should just surrender to England. You don&#8217;t bend the knee to Communists and dictators&#8230;you punch them in the face until they stop. If we bend the knee to Russia now, how long will it be until we beg the dragon that rises in the East to please eat us last?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m-QXz9wotrU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,924,728,414,770,1545,1522,858,315,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-history","tag-invasion","tag-revolution","tag-rome","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}