{"id":316010,"date":"2026-05-11T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316010"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:22:43","slug":"the-world-this-week-playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/the-world-this-week-playing-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The World This Week:  Playing with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em> U.S. Says Iran War Over, But Continues to Fire<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> Whose Victory Day Is It? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> Are We Already in a World War? <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc. Putin is being urged to retaliate by hitting missile-manufacturing sites in Britain and Germany. What then? What now?<\/p>\n<p><em>Guests: Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter &#8212; Interviewer: Joe Lauria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE WORLD THIS WEEK - w\/ Scott Ritter &amp; Ray McGovern - PLAYING WITH FIRE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZvxV54j7eE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 May 2026 &#8211; There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1268,739,450,818,253,278,249,639,961,70,2810,481],"class_list":["post-316010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-proxy-war","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-trump","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316015,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316010\/revisions\/316015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}