{"id":279756,"date":"2016-11-17T19:51:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-calls-on-trump-to-stand-up-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:51:53","slug":"obama-calls-on-trump-to-stand-up-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-calls-on-trump-to-stand-up-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama calls on Trump to stand up to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama has called on his successor Donald Trump to stand up to Russia, underscoring a major concern that overshadowed his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following their meeting in Berlin on Thursday, Obama and Merkel held a press briefing to address the future of\u00a0relations between the US and Europe under the pending presidency of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Trump\u2019s many indications at \u201cnormalizing\u201d ties with Russia, Obama said he hoped that the New York businessman would protect American values and avoid taking a \u201crealpolitik\u201d approach in his dealings with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve sought a constructive relationship with Russia but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world,\u201d the outgoing president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd my hope is the president-elect coming in takes a similarly constructive approach: Finding areas where we can&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/17\/494056\/Obama-Trump-Merkel-NATO-Russia-Germany\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has called on his successor Donald Trump to stand up to Russia, underscoring a major concern that overshadowed his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following their meeting in Berlin on Thursday, Obama and Merkel held a press briefing to address the future of\u00a0relations between the US and Europe under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}