{"id":48121,"date":"2021-05-26T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48121"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:24:33","slug":"mr-potus-stand-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48121","title":{"rendered":"Mr. POTUS, stand firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46261\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/putin-biden.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has a meeting coming up soon with a guy who once had another president twisted around his pinky finger.<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect the same kind of kowtowing from the current POTUS as it regards Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders will meet in their first summit encounter in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>My hope and my expectation is that Joe Biden will give Putin an earful about some of the issues that went unspoken between Putin and Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>You know what they are: Russian interference in our elections; Russian human rights violations; and the bounties that Russians paid the Taliban terrorist\/goons for Americans they killed in battle in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is a bad actor. He runs a rogue nation that presents itself as an economic and military power when it is a third-rate nation at almost every level imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Putin played Donald Trump like a fiddle. He doesn&#8217;t figure to do the same thing to President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Stand firm, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com President Biden has a meeting coming up soon with a guy who once had another president twisted around his pinky finger. I do not expect the same kind of kowtowing from the current POTUS as it regards Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. The leaders will meet in their first summit encounter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. POTUS, stand firm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2505,5125],"class_list":["post-48121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121","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=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48122,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions\/48122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}