{"id":885,"date":"2025-07-23T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:03:04","slug":"super-quick-book-praise-provoked-by-scott-horton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Super-Quick Book Praise: Provoked, by Scott Horton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fsuper-short-provoked-review%3A7?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just a quick post today as I&#8217;m working on some other stuff, but I finally finished <em>Provoked<\/em> by Scott Horton and it was fantastic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s an in-depth study of over 40 years of history, chock-full of thousands of contemporaneous citations showing how world leaders lied to us and each other every step of the way, pushing two of the world&#8217;s most influential powers into the terrible relationship they have today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Scott covers everything in exhaustive detail, pointing out when each side screwed up, and pulling no punches. His anti-war message is clear throughout the book. He talks about diplomatic blunders and potential off-ramps that could have helped reduce the dangers we find ourselves in today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you have any interest in the anti-war movement or the labyrinth that is U.S.-Russia relations, you need to check out this book. And if you&#8217;re a fellow freedom-lover, pick up a copy and help out the greatest foreign policy guy we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Grab a copy here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/31aRaao\">https:\/\/a.co\/d\/31aRaao<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Or head here to get updates on the audiobook version:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthortonshow.com\/p\/provoked-the-audiobook-chapter-1\">https:\/\/www.scotthortonshow.com\/p\/provoked-the-audiobook-chapter-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My short review is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/super-short-provoked-review:7?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dlV7Vlo4cfA\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/wcgSIhQm8FKb\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post today as I&#8217;m working on some other stuff, but I finally finished Provoked by Scott Horton and it was fantastic! It&#8217;s an in-depth study of over 40 years of history, chock-full of thousands of contemporaneous citations showing how world leaders lied to us and each other every step of the way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,2],"tags":[12,69,272,86,60,19,72,271],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-political","category-video-link","tag-antiwar","tag-book-review","tag-diplomacy","tag-freedom","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-politics","tag-scott-horton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumb-3.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}