{"id":13091,"date":"2025-01-08T04:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2025-01-08T04:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T09:47:01","slug":"2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are barely a week into the new year, 2025. Yet here are some news items that would have sounded like outlandish B-movie nonsense just a few years ago.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The incoming president-elect of the United States expressed his interest in annexing Greenland, and did not rule out the use of force against a NATO ally;<\/li>\n<li>The incoming president-elect of the United States expressed his interest in reoccupying the Panama Canal zone and did not rule out the use of force;<\/li>\n<li>The incoming president-elect mused about turning Canada into the 51st state and did not rule out the use of &#8220;economic force&#8221; to accomplish this;<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine&#8217;s offensive in Russia&#8217;s Kursk region led to a large number of casualties on the Russian side, including thousands of North Korean troops;<\/li>\n<li>North Korea successfully tested a new intermediate-range missile;<\/li>\n<li>An article in <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/north-korea\/why-south-korea-should-go-nuclear-kelly-kim\">argues<\/a> that South Korea should acquire nuclear capability for deterrence;<\/li>\n<li>After several similar incidents involving Russian ships in the Baltic Sea, now a Chinese vessel damaged undersea cables connecting Taiwan;<\/li>\n<li>A far-right politician in EU member state Austria is set to form the next government of the country;<\/li>\n<li>Alien ship set to land in New York&#8217;s Central Park turns back at the last minute \u2013 &#8220;Too dangerous, no intelligent life,&#8221; they message their home planet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, I threw in the last one. But the rest? In 2025? Aren&#8217;t they just as outlandish as the bit about aliens? Aren&#8217;t we, and by that I mean the whole human race, supposed to be, you know, a tad more intelligent?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13092\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ai-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guess not. Can&#8217;t wait for the world to be taken over by AI-assisted cats.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13091' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are barely a week into the new year, 2025. Yet here are some news items that would have sounded like outlandish B-movie nonsense just a few years ago. The incoming president-elect of the United States expressed his interest in annexing Greenland, and did not rule out the use of force against a NATO ally; <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13091' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7,58,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-cats","category-cybernetics","category-politics","category-22-id","category-7-id","category-58-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}