{"id":74834,"date":"2025-08-16T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:18:09","slug":"the-nightmare-of-a-trump-putin-pact-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74834\/","title":{"rendered":"The nightmare of a Trump-Putin pact isn\u2019t over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">BEFORE HIS meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump reportedly called Norway\u2019s finance minister to float the idea that he should win a Nobel prize once he had secured peace in Ukraine. Instead, the summit has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/08\/16\/donald-trumps-gift-to-vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handed Mr Putin what he wanted<\/a>: a red carpet and a chance to boast that Russia\u2019s isolation is over even as he ramps up pressure on the battlefield. In return, Mr Putin provided nothing: no ceasefire, no roadmap, not even a token concession. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2025\/08\/14\/the-real-collusion-between-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">They spoke for three hours<\/a>. Little detail has emerged of what, if anything, they have agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEFORE HIS meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump reportedly called Norway\u2019s finance minister to float the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,4353,44,927,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-74834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}