{"id":15678,"date":"2018-09-19T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2018-09-19T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:24:08","slug":"is-donald-trump-turning-national-security-into-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15678","title":{"rendered":"Is Donald Trump turning national security into a business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"76.3869900772\">\n<p><span>Fort Trump:\u00a0<\/span>This was the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/poland.html\">Poland<\/a> suggested for a new US military base on its soil, and it&#8217;s willing to fork out more than $2bn for the project.<\/p>\n<p>During an official visit to Washington, Poland&#8217;s President Andrzej Duda told US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">President Donald Trump<\/a> that stationing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> boots on the ground will defend Poland against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the US has been protecting rich countries for years and these countries, Poland included, should pay for security. He&#8217;s calling it &#8220;burden sharing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, is Trump willing to sell his country&#8217;s military services? And what are the strategic risks?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hoda Abdel Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott Lucas &#8211; professor of American studies at University of Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>David DesRoches &#8211; \u00a0associate professor at National Defense University and former Pentagon official <\/p>\n<p>Georg Lofflmann &#8211; research fellow in international security at Warwick University<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Trump:\u00a0This was the name Poland suggested for a new US military base on its soil, and it&#8217;s willing to fork out more than $2bn for the project. During an official visit to Washington, Poland&#8217;s President Andrzej Duda told US President Donald Trump that stationing US boots on the ground will defend Poland against Russian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}