{"id":22658,"date":"2026-07-14T14:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22658"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:45:58","slug":"how-trump-accidentally-strengthened-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22658","title":{"rendered":"How Trump accidentally strengthened Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to European military dependence on the US, Europe has been deferential to the US. They let the US use their land and facilities even for wars they disagreed with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defending Europe is not a driver of US spending. Europe spending more is good, but it won&#8217;t make the defense of the US and its interests cheaper. If the relationship is too damaged, it will make it more expensive.<\/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=\"How Trump accidentally strengthened Europe | Fareed&amp;apos;s Take\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAr7k_ACewY?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>Due to European military dependence on the US, Europe has been deferential to the US. They let the US use their land and facilities even for wars they disagreed with. <\/p>\n<p>Defending Europe is not a driver of US spending. Europe spending more is good, but it won&#8217;t make the defense of the US and its interests cheaper. If the relationship is too damaged, it will make it more expensive. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TAr7k_ACewY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[162,221,728,272,355,1193,314,259,1070,279,170,619],"class_list":["post-22658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-spending","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-spending","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658","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=22658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22659,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions\/22659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}