{"id":19916,"date":"2020-07-01T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/30\/trump-russia-afghanistan-military-bounty"},"modified":"2020-07-01T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:36:17","slug":"trump-views-us-troops-as-disposable-the-russian-bounty-scandal-makes-that-clear-simon-tisdall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19916","title":{"rendered":"Trump views US troops as disposable \u2013 the Russian bounty scandal makes that clear | Simon Tisdall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, the president has failed to protect military personnel. For Trump, he always comes first, no matter who dies<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/13\/donald-trump-us-military-generals-west-point\">likes to suggest he has got the back<\/a> of US soldiers battling America\u2019s foes around the world. It was a big theme of his 2016 campaign and his West Point speech earlier this month. So great was his boundless care for America\u2019s fighting men and women, he said, that he would halt the endless, costly foreign wars prosecuted by his predecessors \u2013 and bring them home.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/trump-putin-russia-afghanistan-us-soliders-bounty\">Trump&#8217;s ties to Putin under fresh scrutiny in wake of Russia bounty reports<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jun\/30\/trump-russia-afghanistan-military-bounty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, the president has failed to protect military personnel. For Trump, he always comes first, no matter who diesDonald Trump likes to suggest he has got the back of US soldiers battling America\u2019s foes around the world. It was a big theme of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,415,221,419,61,473,47,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}