{"id":131431,"date":"2025-06-19T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131431"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:30:07","slug":"if-trump-has-all-the-cards-why-is-the-us-in-such-a-strategic-quagmireunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131431","title":{"rendered":"If Trump has all the cards, why is the US in such a strategic quagmire?United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostJust four months ago, US President Donald Trump was lecturing a surprised Volodymyr Zelensky on how the Ukrainian leader was \u201cnot winning\u201d because he did not \u201chave the cards\u201d. As commander-in-chief of a superpower, Trump unabashedly brandished his geopolitical capital \u2013 apparently more interested in negotiating agreements with traditional US rivals such as Russia and Iran to bolster his \u201cart of the deal\u201d credentials.<br \/>\nToday, the strategic picture looks dramatically different. Following the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3314829\/if-trump-has-all-cards-why-us-such-strategic-quagmire?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostJust four months ago, US President Donald Trump was lecturing a surprised Volodymyr Zelensky on how the Ukrainian leader was \u201cnot&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}