{"id":3851,"date":"2020-11-18T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2020-11-18T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:13:31","slug":"trump-biden-and-the-f-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Biden and the \u2018f****** Germans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Berlin continues to fall short of NATO defense spending targets”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


…<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“Trump\u2019s attacks on Berlin\u2019s modest military spending may trigger outrage in Germany, but in the U.S., they are viewed as among his less controversial outbursts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That might be because, like Obama before him, he has a point. Why should the U.S. continue to bear the financial brunt of protecting Europe\u2019s richest country? That question becomes even tougher to answer when considering Germany\u2019s continued engagement with Russia \u2014 such as via the\u00a0Nord Stream 2<\/a>\u00a0gas pipeline \u2014 despite the loud objections of the U.S. and other allies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-joe-biden-angela-merkel-us-germany-transatlantic-relationship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Berlin continues to fall short of NATO defense spending targets”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Trump\u2019s attacks on Berlin\u2019s modest military spending may trigger outrage in Germany, but in the U.S., they are viewed as among his less controversial outbursts.
\nThat might be because, like Obama before him, he has a point. Why should the U.S. continue to bear the financial brunt of protecting Europe\u2019s richest country? That question becomes even tougher to answer when considering Germany\u2019s continued engagement with Russia \u2014 such as via the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline \u2014 despite the loud objections of the U.S. and other allies.”<\/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":[355,727,259,1070,279],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-policy","tag-germany","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}