{"id":38997,"date":"2025-04-17T05:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/ex-uk-defence-minister-disgusted-by-trumps-attitude-to-putin-and-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:03:05","slug":"ex-uk-defence-minister-disgusted-by-trumps-attitude-to-putin-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/ex-uk-defence-minister-disgusted-by-trumps-attitude-to-putin-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-UK defence minister \u2018disgusted\u2019 by Trump\u2019s attitude to Putin and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Shapps also compares calling Sumy strike a \u2018mistake\u2019 to statements by IRA terror group when it killed civilians<\/p>\n<p>Pronouncing himself \u201cdisgusted\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s favorable attitude to Russia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the US president calling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/15\/its-sheer-terrorism-sumy-buries-dead-after-russias-palm-sunday-attack\">Russian missile strike<\/a> that killed dozens in Ukraine last weekend a \u201cmistake\u201d was an example of \u201cweasel language we used to hear \u2026 from the IRA\u201d terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll anybody needs Putin to do is get the hell out of a democratic neighboring country,\u201d Shapps told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onedecision.com\/podcast\">the One Decision podcast<\/a>, regarding attempts to end the war in Ukraine that has raged since Russia invaded in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/17\/grant-shapp-trump-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Shapps also compares calling Sumy strike a \u2018mistake\u2019 to statements by IRA terror group when it killed civilians Pronouncing himself \u201cdisgusted\u201d by Donald Trump\u2019s favorable attitude to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the US president calling a Russian missile strike that killed dozens in Ukraine last weekend &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-UK defence minister \u2018disgusted\u2019 by Trump\u2019s attitude to Putin and Russia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/ex-uk-defence-minister-disgusted-by-trumps-attitude-to-putin-and-russia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-UK defence minister \u2018disgusted\u2019 by Trump\u2019s attitude to Putin and Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}