{"id":36688,"date":"2019-07-28T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36688"},"modified":"2019-07-28T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:33:47","slug":"foreign-policy-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36688","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center For Security Policy posted the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2019\/07\/26\/stand-up-to-bullies-or-get-more-aggression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Secure Freedom Minute<\/a> on July 26:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In recent days, fast-boats of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have seized oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0 This action has followed a series of other direct and indirect Iranian provocations, including attacks on shipping, Saudi oil infrastructure and U.S. assets in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a pair of Chinese long-range bombers joined two of their Russian counterparts and one of the Kremlin\u2019s command-and-control aircraft in conducting a deliberate provocation in the airspace over islands claimed by South Korea and Japan. An extraordinary three hundred warning shots were fired in two separate instances before the intruders departed the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Make no mistake: These are probing actions designed to test the readiness and resolve of the United States and its allies. As with any bully, a failure to demonstrate <em>both<\/em> will result in more aggression worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a lesson we should have learned a long time ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center For Security Policy posted the following Secure Freedom Minute on July 26: In recent days, fast-boats of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have seized oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0 This action has followed a series of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5458,1614,2578,10431,10466,10123,1678,6368,6700,1663,285],"class_list":["post-36688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bully","tag-center-for-security-policy","tag-foreign-policy","tag-islamic-revolution","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-revolutionary-guard","tag-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-security","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36689,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36688\/revisions\/36689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}