{"id":26103,"date":"2017-06-02T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26103"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:48:39","slug":"the-art-of-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26103","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Say you\u2019re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. I\u2019m not suggesting there was any such deal, mind you. But if you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do?<\/p>\n<p> 1.  Repudiate NATO. NATO is the biggest thorn in your side \u2013 the alliance that both humiliates you and stymies your ambitions in the Baltics and elsewhere. Trump almost delivered on this last week by pointedly not reaffirming Article 5, which states that an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The five other bullet points <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/161358902975\">await your eyeballs<\/a..\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. I\u2019m not suggesting there was any such deal, mind you. But if you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do? 1. Repudiate NATO. NATO is the biggest thorn in your side \u2013 the alliance that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26104,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26103\/revisions\/26104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}