{"id":149411,"date":"2026-04-09T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149411"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:00:14","slug":"will-trumps-iran-war-loyalty-test-spell-the-end-of-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149411","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump\u2019s Iran war \u2018loyalty test\u2019 spell the end of Nato?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US-Israel war on Iran could push Nato closer to becoming a \u201cnominal\u201d alliance, although it was unlikely to disband any time soon, a Chinese observer said.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticised the transatlantic defence alliance since returning to the White House last year, accusing allies of \u201cfree\u2011riding\u201d on US security and demanding greater military and financial contributions.<br \/>\nThat rhetoric has only intensified in recent weeks, with accusations that Nato was failing to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3349551\/will-trumps-iran-war-loyalty-test-spell-end-nato?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 US-Israel war on Iran could push Nato closer to becoming a \u201cnominal\u201d alliance, although it was unlikely to disband any time soon, a&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\/149411"}],"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=149411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}