{"id":164168,"date":"2024-12-09T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=164168"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:42:48","slug":"first-you-get-their-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164168","title":{"rendered":"First You Get Their Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164169 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nato-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nato-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nato.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf they\u2019re paying their bills, and if I think they\u2019re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely I\u2019d stay with NATO.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Trump calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and says a US withdrawal from NATO is possible<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA and ELLEN KNICKMEYER<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to act to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine, describing it as part of his active efforts as president-elect to end the war despite being weeks from taking office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness,\u201d Trump wrote on social media, referring to Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>In a television interview that aired Sunday, Trump also said he would be open to reducing military aid to Ukraine and pulling the United States out of NATO. Those are two threats that have alarmed Ukraine, NATO allies and many in the U.S. national security community.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d if he were actively working to end the nearly 3-year-old Ukraine war, Trump said, \u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He refused to say if he had spoken to Putin since winning election in November. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say anything about that, because I don\u2019t want to do anything that could impede the negotiation,\u201d Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-trump-ceasefire-e00a18db202ef74b38e009bb2a5381cf\">AP News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gotta love AP News, they quote opinions from H.R. McMaster, who Trump fired as National Security Advisor and invoke the inapplicable Logan Act. The article is based on Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; interview with a remarkably respectful Kristen Welker.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet the Press full broadcast \u2014 Dec. 8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-UsHJWEAj_I\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Come 20 January there will no longer be any doubt who is in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re paying their bills, and if I think they\u2019re treating us fairly, the answer is &hellip; <a title=\"First You Get Their Attention\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=164168\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First You Get Their Attention<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":164169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,306,384,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-nato","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}