{"id":24937,"date":"2022-12-01T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=24937"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:30:50","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-war-is-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-war-is-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: War Is Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>Author&#8217;s Note:\u00a0My Muse in somber mood this morning\u2026\u00a0Wading through a host of reports on Ukraine, the fighting around Bakhmut seems to be growing in intensity, and the trench warfare is getting nastier and nastier as the weather gets colder, and yet there is a story in one of the big foreign policy journals that that there was a ceasefire on the table in April under which Russia would have withdrawn to the pre-February 24 lines but that the US and UK leadership twisted Zelenskyy\u2019s arm and forced him to walk away\u2026 It sounds incredible but not so\u2026 And 100,000+ Ukrainian casualties later, the war grinds on.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ukraine is hip deep in this madness and the country is slowly being destroyed and all the social and economic costs &#8211; around the world &#8211; are mounting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Arrias<\/p>\n<p>War is Hell<\/p>\n<p>Those who have never fought,<br \/>\nShould not have a say,<br \/>\nWho have never had a comrade die,<br \/>\nShould stay out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Those that talk but do not understand<br \/>\nWhat it means to go to war,<br \/>\nShould not command those who do,<br \/>\nThose who will stand in the door.<\/p>\n<p>It will not be clean, it will not be neat,<br \/>\nThe innocent will die,<br \/>\nAnd thousands will be left to ask<br \/>\nFor Whom, For What, and Why?<\/p>\n<p>If it is you must go to war,<br \/>\nYou must be prepared to kill,<br \/>\nAnd do every single thing to win,<br \/>\nTo win, to impose your will.<\/p>\n<p>If you are prepared for that,<br \/>\nI suppose you might be deranged,<br \/>\nFor in fact no one really is,<br \/>\nAnd no matter what, you will be changed.<\/p>\n<p>And after \u2026 you will find it tough<br \/>\nTo explain, or simply to tell.<br \/>\nYou see, in truth, Billy was right,<br \/>\nThis thing is certain, all War is Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2022 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note:\u00a0My Muse in somber mood this morning\u2026\u00a0Wading through a host of reports on Ukraine, the fighting around Bakhmut seems to be growing in intensity, and the trench warfare is getting nastier and nastier as the weather gets colder, and yet there is a story in one of the big foreign policy journals that that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24940,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24937\/revisions\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}