{"id":199341,"date":"2007-08-09T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/i-wonder-if-this-is-simply-pr-from-boeing-lockheed-and-sukhoi\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T02:59:00","slug":"i-wonder-if-this-is-simply-pr-from-boeing-lockheed-and-sukhoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/09\/i-wonder-if-this-is-simply-pr-from-boeing-lockheed-and-sukhoi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder if This is Simply PR from Boeing, Lockheed, and Sukhoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/is-rumored-arms-sale-to-iran-pretext.html\">on the rumored sale 250 Sukhoi Su-30 multi role fighters to Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well now it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/08\/06\/215925\/us-to-arm-mid-east-allies-in-response-to-iran-sukhoi.html\">the US is going to be selling a s$@% load of military hardware in the region<\/a> in order to provide a counterweight to rumored Iranian deal.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m being a cynic, but I&#8217;m beginning to think that Boeing, Lockheed, and Sukhoi are the ones spreading this rumor, as they all stand to gain a lot from the ensuing orgy of weapons procurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I blogged on the rumored sale 250 Sukhoi Su-30 multi role fighters to Iran. Well now it appears that the US is going to be selling a s$@% load of military hardware in the region in order to provide a counterweight to rumored Iranian deal. Maybe I&#8217;m being a cynic, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199341"}],"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=199341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}