{"id":4416,"date":"2026-01-23T08:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:54:46","slug":"how-to-avoid-repeating-the-recent-international-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid Repeating the Recent International Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA532.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA532.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: How to Avoid Repeating the Recent International Crisis\" class=\"wp-image-4417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA532.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA532-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula has a lot similarities to Greenland:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s way up north, not easily accessible, and often described as &#8220;arctic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not very populated. (The UP has nearly 30% of Michigan&#8217;s landmass but only 3% of its population.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air force facilities that guarded our northern flank during the cold war (K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Kincheloe Air Force Base, and Calumet Air Force Station) have now been decommissioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a longstanding Nordic cultural heritage (Finnish mostly, not Danish in their case).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And generally they don&#8217;t like it when people who don&#8217;t live there try to tell them what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respect Yoopers. Respect Greenlanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula has a lot similarities to Greenland: It&#8217;s way up north, not easily accessible, and often described as &#8220;arctic.&#8221; It&#8217;s not very populated. (The UP has nearly 30% of Michigan&#8217;s landmass but only 3% of its population.) Air force facilities that guarded our northern flank during the cold war (K.I. Sawyer Air Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}