{"id":16506,"date":"2017-04-08T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16506"},"modified":"2017-04-08T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T00:44:05","slug":"fortress-america-and-the-big-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/04\/08\/fortress-america-and-the-big-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"fortress America and the big defense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.\u00c2\u00a0 As some major newspaper op ed writer out there had it, as interpreted by the liberal anti-war op ed writer Normon Solomon, &#8220;The way Donald Trump needs to prove \/ assert his independence from Russian is by bombing everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of one&#8217;s opinions on air-strikes on Syria, and on to a &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; Vladimir Putin &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The sidebar in the newspaper features the &#8220;split&#8221; Republican Party &#8212; with Senator John McCain, Arizona praising the thing and Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky damning the thing.<br \/>\nAnd the Democratic reaction is a quote, favorable, from Chuck Schumer, New York.\u00c2\u00a0 2 responses from various Republicans, one Democratic response.\u00c2\u00a0 The &#8220;Leader&#8221;, such as he is.\u00c2\u00a0 But then again, Bernie&#8217;s not a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, the balance of forces that allowed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/infowars-alex-jones-and-alt-right-conspiracy-theorists-turn-against-trump-over-syria-strike\">guys like this to be taken somewhat seriously in some semi-bi- or non &#8211; partisan<\/a> fashion through the past two administrations, but pulled ashunder at the dawning of Trump, is slightly re-balanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well.\u00c2\u00a0 As some major newspaper op ed writer out there had it, as interpreted by the liberal anti-war op ed writer Normon Solomon, &#8220;The way Donald Trump needs to prove \/ assert his independence from Russian is by bombing everything.&#8221; Regardless of one&#8217;s opinions on air-strikes on Syria, and on to a &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; Vladimir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16511,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions\/16511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}