{"id":148976,"date":"2026-04-01T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148976"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:30:09","slug":"what-the-iran-war-reveals-about-natos-appetite-for-conflict-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148976","title":{"rendered":"What the Iran war reveals about Nato\u2019s appetite for conflict over Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States attacked Iran without consulting its European allies. President Donald Trump assumed the operation would be a quick win, over before anyone had to take a position. Instead, Washington answered a question Western governments had long avoided.<br \/>\nAfter years of pushing Nato towards confrontation with China, would the transatlantic alliance fight a war it had not chosen together? The answer was no.<br \/>\nIran and Taiwan are different cases. One sits on Europe\u2019s wider periphery and carries&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3348047\/what-iran-war-reveals-about-natos-appetite-conflict-over-taiwan?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 PostThe United States attacked Iran without consulting its European allies. President Donald Trump assumed the operation would be a quick win, over before anyone&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\/148976"}],"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=148976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}