{"id":135474,"date":"2023-07-06T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135474"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:48:37","slug":"joe-biden-blocked-uk-from-leading-nato-in-revenge-for-britain-helping-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/06\/joe-biden-blocked-uk-from-leading-nato-in-revenge-for-britain-helping-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden blocked UK from leading Nato in REVENGE for Britain helping Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy GB News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>US president Joe Biden has pushed to make Ursula von der Leyen Nato&#8217;s secretary general after Britain revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s without his approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The role is up for grabs until Autumn 2024 when Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, steps down as head the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Wallace, the UK Defence Secretary, had been a front-runner but has failed to back support from the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has emerged that the lack of US backing is due to tensions over Britain\u2019s ambitious military support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy GB News US president Joe Biden has pushed to make Ursula von der Leyen Nato&#8217;s secretary general after Britain revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s without his approval. The role is up for grabs until Autumn 2024 when Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, steps down as head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}