{"id":154327,"date":"2026-07-12T04:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154327\/mccaul-backs-deeper-us-ukraine-defense-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:03:58","slug":"mccaul-backs-deeper-us-ukraine-defense-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/154327\/mccaul-backs-deeper-us-ukraine-defense-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaul Backs Deeper US Ukraine Defense Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rep. Michael McCaul says Ukraine is gaining momentum on the battlefield but urgently needs more Patriot interceptors and stronger air defenses to counter Russia's escalating missile attacks. He urges deeper US-Ukraine defense cooperation, including licensed Patriot production and joint drone development, while arguing sustained military pressure offers the best path to negotiations with Russia. (Source: Bloomberg)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michael McCaul says Ukraine is gaining momentum on the battlefield but urgently needs more Patriot interceptors and stronger air defenses to counter Russia's escalating missile attacks. He urges deeper US-Ukraine defense cooperation, including licensed Patriot production and joint drone development, while arguing sustained military pressure offers the best path to negotiations with Russia. (Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}