{"id":652430,"date":"2025-02-19T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=652430"},"modified":"2025-02-19T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:49:13","slug":"trump-is-only-western-statesman-who-wants-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=652430","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Only Western Statesman Who Wants Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"subtitle\">This morning I read reports of Secretary of State Rubio\u2019s meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia. The following bit jumped out at me:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia wants Nato to disavow 2008 promise to Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Russia wants Nato to disavow its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the US-led military alliance, Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>Nato membership for Ukraine is unacceptable for Russia but a simple refusal to accept Ukraine into the alliance is also not enough either, a spokesman said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is worth noting that a refusal to accept Kyiv into Nato is not enough,\u201d a spokesman said. \u201cThe alliance must disavow the Bucharest promises of 2008.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At a summit in Bucharest in April 2008, Nato declared that both Ukraine and Georgia would join the US-led defence alliance &#8211; but gave them no plan for how to get there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We often hear about Putin being a bad guy, and maybe he is. However, if there is evidence that our western leaders aren\u2019t totally depraved, I\u2019ve still not seen it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefocalpoints.com\/p\/trump-is-only-western-statesman-who?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1119676&amp;post_id=157392848&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=7591d&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/www.thefocalpoints.com\/p\/trump-is-only-western-statesman-who?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I read reports of Secretary of State Rubio\u2019s meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia. The following bit jumped out at me: Russia wants Nato to disavow 2008 promise to Ukraine Russia wants Nato to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=652430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652431,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652430\/revisions\/652431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}