{"id":21173,"date":"2026-01-19T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21173"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:35:20","slug":"why-america-is-better-off-with-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21173","title":{"rendered":"Why America Is Better Off With Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US saves a lot of money on military spending because our greatest rivals would have to go through our allies and partners to seriously get to us. Without those allies and partners, those rivals could more easily reach out and touch the US, which would require greater military spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why America Is Better Off With Allies\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KmuWGT__yc?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US saves a lot of money on military spending because our greatest rivals would have to go through our allies and partners to seriously get to us. Without those allies and partners, those rivals could more easily reach out and touch the US, which would require greater military spending. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KmuWGT__yc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1366,89,552,1745,728,272,355,727,1470,314,315,619,158],"class_list":["post-21173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-allies","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-germany","tag-great-britain","tag-international-relations","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21174,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21173\/revisions\/21174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}