{"id":143508,"date":"2026-01-04T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143508"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:24:28","slug":"straddle-the-middle-ground-europes-hard-choice-over-us-attacks-against-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143508","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Straddle the middle ground\u2019: Europe\u2019s hard choice over US attacks against Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCaught in a diplomatic dilemma, European countries have distanced themselves from the United States\u2019 military strikes and forced regime change in Venezuela, while also remaining hesitant to directly criticise Washington\u2019s actions.<br \/>\nThere was shock around the world over the weekend after US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration launched \u201cOperation Absolute Resolve\u201d to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and transport them to US territory before holding the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3338673\/straddle-middle-ground-europeans-hard-choice-over-us-attacks-against-venezuela?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCaught in a diplomatic dilemma, European countries have distanced themselves from the United States\u2019 military strikes and forced regime change in Venezuela, while also&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143508"}],"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=143508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}