{"id":131751,"date":"2024-10-08T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131751"},"modified":"2024-10-08T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T23:42:22","slug":"unherd-malcolm-kekyune-hurricane-helene-is-americas-chernobyl-moment-the-tragedy-exposes-the-weakness-of-the-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131751","title":{"rendered":"(Unherd) Malcolm Kekyune&#8211;Hurricane Helene is America\u2019s Chernobyl moment&#8211;The tragedy exposes the weakness of the US military"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Currently, a hurricane disaster that is significantly more challenging than Katrina is being serviced by something like a third of the resources that Louisiana called upon. And yet few people in Washington even think this is a problem. At the same time as Congress has borrowed another 10 or 20 billion dollars to hand over to Ukraine and Israel, presidential candidate Kamala Harris has announced that the victims of Helene will be able to apply for $750 in relief assistance to help them get back on their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Chernobyl was, Helene is now becoming: a point at which the sheer absurdity and uselessness of the machine becomes too obvious to ignore. Looking at the disaster unfolding in Appalachia, the winners of the Cold War are now starting to ask the same question that eventually brought down the Soviet Union: what the hell is even the point of all of this anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2024\/10\/hurricane-helene-is-americas-chernobyl-moment\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very thoughtful essay on the response to Hurricane Helene, likening it to the Soviet response to Chernobyl.<br><br>\u201cAs Chernobyl was, Helene is now becoming: a point at which the sheer absurdity &amp; uselessness of the machine becomes too obvious to ignore.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y9PzwMpeJ2\">https:\/\/t.co\/y9PzwMpeJ2<\/a><\/p>\u2014 TheBlogMire (@theblogmire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theblogmire\/status\/1843711785905598521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, a hurricane disaster that is significantly more challenging than Katrina is being serviced by something like a third of the resources that Louisiana called upon. And yet few people in Washington even think this is a problem. At the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131751\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131763,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131751\/revisions\/131763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}