{"id":65604,"date":"2016-05-05T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65604"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:20:49","slug":"with-friends-like-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65604","title":{"rendered":"With friends like these\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First read this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/04\/russia-to-counter-natos-4000-man-deployment-by-adding-over-30000-troops\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> about Putin\u2019s response to Obama\u2019s intention to return an armored brigade to Europe in the face of new Russian geopolitical threats. It seems the Russian despot is once again upstaging our bicycle-helmeted commander-in-chief to the tune of more than two divisions, once again playing tournament chess while Obama plays kindergarten checkers.<\/p>\n<p>Then read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2016\/05\/03\/german-army-has-to-leave-nato-exercises-early-because-of-overtime-rules\/\">this little jewel of informati<\/a>on regarding the soldiering status of what is supposedly our most stalwart ally in Europe in standing up to any threats from the Russian Bear.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this juxtaposition of news doesn\u2019t make any of you gag on your Wheaties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First read this story from Daily Caller about Putin\u2019s response to Obama\u2019s intention to return an &hellip; <a title=\"With friends like these\u2026\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65604\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">With friends like these\u2026<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65604","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\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}