{"id":179564,"date":"2018-01-01T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/missile-deal-is-signed\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T01:03:00","slug":"missile-deal-is-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/missile-deal-is-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Missile Deal is Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/awindefense\/turkey-signs-s-400-deal-russia\">officially signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 <i>Triumf<\/i> surface to air missiles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey has finalized a deal with Russia to purchase the S-400 Triumph (SA-21 Growler) missile defense system, in a move that is likely to irritate NATO allies. The deal was signed by Ankara on Friday, Dec. 29. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NATO in general, and the US military in particular are freaking out over this, because, as I have noted before, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/of-course-heads-are-exploding-their.html\">the Pentagon sees NATO as a sales vehicle for American weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian system is more capable, and cheaper, and given its origin, it is probably easier to maintain, but none of this matters to NATO leadership, because it doesn&#8217;t support the western arms manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, you have the military industrial complex on one side, and Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan on the other.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just hoping that there is a way that they can both lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has officially signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 Triumf surface to air missiles: Turkey has finalized a deal with Russia to purchase the S-400 Triumph (SA-21 Growler) missile defense system, in a move that is likely to irritate NATO allies. The deal was signed by Ankara on Friday, Dec. 29. \u2026\u2026\u2026 NATO &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[381,511,410,697,455],"class_list":["post-179564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-defense-procurement","tag-missiles","tag-nato","tag-near-east","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}