{"id":143735,"date":"2026-01-07T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143735"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:52:06","slug":"trump-calls-for-us1-5-trillion-in-military-spending-citing-dangerous-timesunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143735","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for US$1.5 trillion in military spending, citing \u2018dangerous times\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at US$1.5 trillion in 2027, citing \u201ctroubled and dangerous times\u201d.<br \/>\nTrump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a US military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and spirit him out of the country to face drug trafficking charges in the United States. US forces continue to mass in the Caribbean Sea.<br \/>\nThe 2026 military budget is set at US$901 billion.<br \/>\nTrump in recent days has also&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3339108\/trump-calls-us15-trillion-military-spending-citing-dangerous-times?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 PostUS President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting military spending at US$1.5 trillion in 2027, citing \u201ctroubled and dangerous times\u201d. Trump&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\/143735"}],"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=143735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}