{"id":8447,"date":"2018-07-12T07:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2018-07-12T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:43:42","slug":"leave-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8447","title":{"rendered":"Leave NATO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, The Donald has threatened U.S. withdrawal from NATO if other member states don&#8217;t immediately meet his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-threatens-to-pull-out-of-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\">summary demand<\/a> that they devote 4% of their GDP to defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to break with NATO and conduct American security unilaterally \u2014 if allies do not immediately meet higher military spending targets, NATO officials and diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump warned of \u201cgrave consequences\u201d if allies do not immediately meet higher spending targets, derailing a morning meeting of NATO leaders with the leaders of Georgia and Ukraine on the second day of a NATO leaders\u2019 summit on Thursday. One NATO official said Trump wants a plan from alliance members by January on how to reach the spending target.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again: Donald Trump is working for the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Do your duty, Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, The Donald has threatened U.S. withdrawal from NATO if other member states don&#8217;t immediately meet his summary demand that they devote 4% of their GDP to defense. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to break with NATO and conduct American &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}