{"id":59464,"date":"2026-02-15T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59464"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:16:29","slug":"restore-us-eu-relations-try-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59464","title":{"rendered":"Restore US-EU relations? Try this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he wants the United States and the European Union to seek a fresh start to the relationship that has been damaged in recent months.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea, Mr. Secretary: How about advising your boss &#8212; the POTUS &#8212; to dial back his criticism of the nations that comprise the EU, which I am certain will help solve the bitterness that is growing in European capitals throughout the continent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Donald Trump seems bent on pissing off our allies and near as I can tell from my distant perch, he&#8217;s doing a great job at it. No head of state or government in the EU has endorsed Trump&#8217;s efforts at claiming Greenland. Nor have they embraced his solidarity with Vladimir Putin in his illegal, immoral war against Ukraine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Restart and restore relations, Marco Rubio? Start with some fundamental policy changes in the West Wing.<\/p>\r\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>Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he wants the United States and the European Union to seek a fresh start to the relationship that has been damaged in recent months. Here&#8217;s an idea, Mr. Secretary: How about advising your boss &#8212; the POTUS &#8212; to dial back his criticism of the nations that comprise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restore US-EU relations? Try this<\/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":[1639,8878,2892],"class_list":["post-59464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-eu","tag-greenland","tag-marco-rubio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59464","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=59464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59466,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59464\/revisions\/59466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}