{"id":29853,"date":"2018-07-16T06:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29853"},"modified":"2018-07-16T06:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:34:53","slug":"helsinki-meeting-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/helsinki-meeting-whats-the-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki Meeting: What&#8217;s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Helsinki meeting between Trump and Putin &#8212; just the two of them &#8212; is about to happen, and people are apoplectic about it.  What is going to happen at the meeting? Trump has no agenda, there has been no announcement about the point or contents of the meeting?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>People need to lighten up. Trump needs no agenda for this meeting. Putin has it totally under control.  Relax!<\/p>\n<p>Trump has promised to bring up &#8220;meddling.&#8221;  However, I assume he&#8217;ll be bringing up to apologize for the witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is my short list of things Trump will give Putin within a month of the meeting.  Not all these things, and there will be things not on this list. But I think there will be things from this list:<\/p>\n<p>1) Pardon Mueller-indicted Russians<br \/>\n2) The Crimea<br \/>\n3) A presidential finding that oil extraction in Siberia is outside any sanctions by the US, including Congress<br \/>\n4) Alaska<br \/>\n5) Syria<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helsinki meeting between Trump and Putin &#8212; just the two of them &#8212; is about to happen, and people are apoplectic about it. What is going to happen at the meeting? Trump has no agenda, there has been no announcement about the point or contents of the meeting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[33,1366,5350,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PurinReumpPuppwr.png?fit=620%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Lv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29855,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853\/revisions\/29855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}