{"id":467,"date":"2019-02-23T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T12:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2019-02-23T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T12:32:34","slug":"troika-of-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Troika of Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"troika_of_tyranny.jpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/media\/images\/troika_of_tyranny.jpeg\" alt=\"troika_of_tyranny.jpeg\" width=\"470\" height=\"265\"><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, Mike Pence and John Bolton \u2013 best known for their \u201cerratic and aggressive\u201d traits \u2013 are a \u201ctoxic mixture\u201d that leaves Europe less secure, a reputable German MP has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s government hoped that it could quietly wait for the Trump administration to end, but that was \u201ca bitter illusion,\u201d Jurgen Trittin, former minister for the environment and now a prominent Green Party MP, argued in an op-ed for Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The sitting US administration combines the erratic destructiveness of Donald Trump with the neoconservative aggression of Pence and Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>The German politician proceeded to up the ante: \u201cThis is a toxic mixture, it endangers Europe\u2019s security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two-thirds of Germans say Trump is more dangerous than Putin.<br \/>\nIn support of his claim, Trittin listed a number of important accords that were derailed or abandoned by the US, including the Paris climate change agreement, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and \u2013 most recently \u2013 the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Treaties aside, Trump also quit UNESCO, citing the UN body\u2019s \u2018anti-Israel stance.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, Mike Pence and John Bolton \u2013 best known for their \u201cerratic and aggressive\u201d traits \u2013 are a \u201ctoxic mixture\u201d that leaves Europe less secure, a reputable German MP has warned. Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s government hoped that it could quietly wait for the Trump administration to end, but that was \u201ca bitter illusion,\u201d Jurgen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}