{"id":218827,"date":"2026-06-18T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/rutte-tries-to-downplay-pete-hegseths-blistering-attack-on-nato\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:49:04","slug":"rutte-tries-to-downplay-pete-hegseths-blistering-attack-on-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/rutte-tries-to-downplay-pete-hegseths-blistering-attack-on-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutte tries to downplay Pete Hegseth&#8217;s blistering attack on NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Trump admininstration plans to pull a number troops out of Europe in the next six months, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth lambasted NATO defence ministers in Brussels, describing them as &#8220;shameful&#8221; and preoccupied with gender equality and climate change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/18\/rutte-tries-to-downplay-pete-hegseths-blistering-attack-on-nato\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Trump admininstration plans to pull a number troops out of Europe in the next six months, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth lambasted NATO defence ministers in Brussels, describing them as &#8220;shameful&#8221; and preoccupied with gender equality and climate change. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":218828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}