{"id":15502,"date":"2016-06-25T01:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2016-06-25T01:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:51:08","slug":"reaction-to-brexit-vote-is-most-revealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to ‘Brexit’ vote is most revealing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama is dismayed at the results of the British referendum that means that the United Kingdom is going to leave the European Union.<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is saddened, too, by the outcome.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who staked his reputation on keeping his country in the EU, announced his resignation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia has applauded the result.<\/p>\n

So has the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n

Here’s the best one yet: Donald J. Trump has joined Russia and Iran<\/em> in cheering the referendum result.<\/p>\n

Yes, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is now in league with Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n

Aren’t these countries two of our more fearsome adversaries?<\/p>\n

Oh, I almost forgot. Trump says Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is a “strong leader.” He’s also endorsed the ham-fisted tactics of other totalitarian regimes, such as Iran, for their firmness.<\/p>\n\n

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What am I missing here? President Barack Obama is dismayed at the results of the British referendum that means that the United Kingdom is going to leave the European Union. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is saddened, too, by the outcome. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who staked his reputation on keeping his country … Continue reading Reaction to ‘Brexit’ vote is most revealing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6353,1424,1639,2139,2312,5125],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-brexit","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iran","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15506,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}