{"id":154051,"date":"2026-07-05T07:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154051"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:55:05","slug":"first-money-now-loyalty-trumps-demands-test-nato-chiefs-flattery-tacticsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154051","title":{"rendered":"First money, now \u2018loyalty\u2019: Trump\u2019s demands test Nato chief\u2019s flattery tacticsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSince he started work as Nato secretary general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world\u2019s biggest military alliance, employing outright flattery to dissuade US President Donald Trump from acting on threats to abandon it.<br \/>\nBut the goalposts keep shifting, raising the stakes ahead of this week\u2019s summit in Turkey.<br \/>\nInitially, it was about money. Trump has long railed against Nato allies for spending too small a fraction of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3359465\/first-money-now-loyalty-trumps-demands-test-nato-chiefs-flattery-tactics?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 PostSince he started work as Nato secretary general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying&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\/154051"}],"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=154051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}