{"id":26436,"date":"2017-08-13T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26436"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:59:03","slug":"grab-your-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26436","title":{"rendered":"Grab Your Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/albertonardelli\/this-is-why-european-diplomats-think-donald-trump-is?utm_term=.kjM3dwAOg#.np8EyDK9L\">\u201cHe has no historical view.<\/a> He is only dealing with these issues now, and seems to think the world started when he took office,\u201d a diplomat told BuzzFeed News, pointing to Trump\u2019s remarks and tweets about defence spending. \u201cHe thinks that NATO existed only to keep the communists out of Europe. He has a similar attitude in Asia-Pacific with Japan, ignoring that the US basically wrote their constitution.\u201d During his presidential campaign, Trump called out Japan to pay more for the security US provides, including for hosting the US troops in the country. Japan\u2019s constitution restricts its military options.<\/p>\n<p>They also believe Trump\u2019s foreign policy is chiefly driven by an obsession with unravelling Barack Obama\u2019s policies. \u201cIt\u2019s his only real position,\u201d one European diplomat said. <b>\u201cHe will ask: \u2018Did Obama approve this?\u2019 And if the answer is affirmative, he will say: \u2018We don\u2019t.\u2019<\/b> He won\u2019t even want to listen to the arguments or have a debate. He is obsessed with Obama.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?page_id=18788\">It's alive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe has no historical view. He is only dealing with these issues now, and seems to think the world started when he took office,\u201d a diplomat told BuzzFeed News, pointing to Trump\u2019s remarks and tweets about defence spending. \u201cHe thinks that NATO existed only to keep the communists out of Europe. He has a similar [&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-26436","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\/26436","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=26436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26437,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26436\/revisions\/26437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}