{"id":4736,"date":"2026-04-07T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/4736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:52:20","slug":"trumpworlds-growing-sway-in-arms-sales-on-display-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/4736\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpworld\u2019s Growing Sway in Arms Sales on Display in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many respects, the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setaf-africa.army.mil\/african-land-forces-summit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">African Land Forces Summit<\/a> in Rome looked like any other US-led military conclave. The event was packed with men in uniform, chests plastered with medals and badges, shoulders weighed down by golden braids and epaulets. In a luxury hotel perched on a hill above the Vatican, the African representatives met with US and NATO counterparts for sessions on counterterrorism, training and coordination, and more than a few informal chats in the corridors.<\/p>\n<p>But just outside the conference hall, the atmosphere at the March 22-24 conference had a different tone, reflecting the changing priorities of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In many respects, the 2026 African Land Forces Summit in Rome looked like any other US-led military conclave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3545,537,3541,1296,323,3544,3543,3542,27,38,3546],"class_list":{"0":"post-4736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rome","8":"tag-aerial-drones","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-digital-currency","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-foreign-policy","13":"tag-military-and-defense","14":"tag-minerals","15":"tag-private-equity","16":"tag-rome","17":"tag-terrorism","18":"tag-transportation-funding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}