{"id":35024,"date":"2020-03-31T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35024"},"modified":"2020-03-31T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:28:12","slug":"while-trump-fights-coronavirus-pompeos-on-the-warpath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/while-trump-fights-coronavirus-pompeos-on-the-warpath\/","title":{"rendered":"While Trump Fights Coronavirus, Pompeo&#8217;s on the Warpath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your eye on Pompeo! President Trump is understandably distracted by the coronavirus outbreak in the US but in the &#8220;never let a good crisis go to waste&#8221; mode, the neocons in his Administration \u2013 led by Pompeo \u2013 are launching their war plots without the normal scrutiny. Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Russia \u2013 the long knives are coming out. Trump has been able to put the kibbosh on Pompeo&#8217;s plans before, but a distracted Trump is in danger of losing control of his foreign policy. Launching a foolish war in the midst of the current crisis would surely spell disaster for the president. On today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2fVYl5uSW2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your eye on Pompeo! President Trump is understandably distracted by the coronavirus outbreak in the US but in the &#8220;never let a good crisis go to waste&#8221; mode, the neocons in his Administration \u2013 led by Pompeo \u2013 are launching their war plots without the normal scrutiny. Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Russia \u2013 the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35027,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35024\/revisions\/35027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}