{"id":357598,"date":"2025-08-19T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357598\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:06:11","slug":"putins-desire-to-destroy-western-unity-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357598\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s desire to destroy Western unity rages on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">On august 16th, a day after his summit with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin summoned Russia\u2019s grandees to the Kremlin\u2019s Hall of the Order of St Catherine. Built in tsarist times to show off the glory of the Russian empire, the hall was the setting for Mr Putin\u2019s account of his achievements during the visit to Alaska, a former imperial possession. He praised Mr Trump\u2019s \u201csincerity\u201d and efforts to end the war. \u201cIt moves us closer to making necessary decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On august 16th, a day after his summit with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin summoned Russia\u2019s grandees to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[299,12,332,11409,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-357598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine-at-war","12":"tag-vladimir-putin","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057235431159667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}