{"id":274049,"date":"2025-09-01T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/they-think-they-can-do-better-retired-colonel-on-putin-and-xis-alternative-global-view\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:05:12","slug":"they-think-they-can-do-better-retired-colonel-on-putin-and-xis-alternative-global-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/they-think-they-can-do-better-retired-colonel-on-putin-and-xis-alternative-global-view\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They think they can do better\u2019: Retired colonel on Putin and Xi\u2019s alternative global view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/OX-Brbm6-nE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018They think they can do better\u2019: Retired colonel on Putin and Xi\u2019s alternative global view\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OX-Brbm6-nE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton weighs in on the meeting of the Beijing- and Moscow- backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the northern port city of Tianjin, China. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pushed back against what they see as the foundations of a US-led world order, opposing alliances like NATO #CNN #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton weighs in on the meeting of the Beijing- and Moscow- backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the northern port city of Tianjin, China. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pushed back against what they see as the foundations of a US-led world order, opposing alliances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":274050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[131387,130054,130399],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-274049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-cedric","tag-force","tag-retired"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018They think they can do better\u2019: Retired colonel on Putin and Xi\u2019s alternative global view | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch \u2018They think they can do better\u2019: Retired colonel on Putin and Xi\u2019s alternative global view for free, here on News ISC. 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