{"id":294891,"date":"2017-02-15T04:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/500-us-troops-arrive-in-romania-with-their-tanks\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T04:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:35:04","slug":"500-us-troops-arrive-in-romania-with-their-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/500-us-troops-arrive-in-romania-with-their-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"500 US troops arrive in Romania with their tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Five hundred US troops have arrived in Romania to allegedly beef up defense in the East European member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a move likely to further escalate Russia-NATO tensions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Bucharest said on Tuesday that the troops had arrived in a Romanian Black Sea port with tanks and military hardware as part of a move to help bolster NATO\u2019s eastern flank in the face of what the West considers &#8220;Russian aggression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US Ambassador Hans G. Klemm said the troops would be stationed in an airbase in the country\u2019s east on a rotating basis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Klemm added that the deployment underscores &#8220;the strong US-Romania strategic partnership exists in both word and deed,\u201d and the presence of American soldiers &#8220;expands our capacity\u2026 in maintaining peace and security in southeastern Europe and the Black Sea region.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Reports said that the troops would take part in\u00a0different multinational exercises and conduct shooting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/15\/510599\/US-troops-Romania-NATO-Hans-Klemm-Black-Sea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five hundred US troops have arrived in Romania to allegedly beef up defense in the East European member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a move likely to further escalate Russia-NATO tensions. The US embassy in Bucharest said on Tuesday that the troops had arrived in a Romanian Black Sea port with tanks [&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-294891","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\/294891","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=294891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}