{"id":132787,"date":"2026-05-03T04:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132787"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:31:22","slug":"favorite-tweets-37200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132787","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@Strandjunker You are very much mistaken. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking as someone that grew up in Germany, before the Berlin Wall came down, I can tell you that then, as now, US bases and assets are there for the defense of Germany, Europe, and NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they are useful as staging or operating<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; RobertRice (@RobertRice)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertRice\/status\/2050712087664762922\">May 2, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertRice<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Strandjunker You are very much mistaken. Speaking as someone that grew up in Germany, before the Berlin Wall came down, I can tell you that then, as now, US bases and assets are there for the defense of Germany, Europe, and NATO allies. The fact that they are useful as staging or operating &mdash; RobertRice &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132787\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-132787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132788,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132787\/revisions\/132788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132787"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=132787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}