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I don't see how NSA scandal should affect this deal. You dont snap such major deals because you want to insult someone. That is childish. However if Brazil beli
by tn13 13y ago
I don't see how NSA scandal should affect this deal. You dont snap such major deals because you want to insult someone. That is childish. However if Brazil believed that US manufactures might help NSA in planting backdoors, malware into their equipment they could have simply stated it more publicly and done even greater damage to American companies.
The weapon manufacturers + US government nexus has changed world politics over last 50 years. In case of India and Pakistan, US has provided fuel to the conflict just to make more profit from this. Sooner or later the developed world is going to see through the US policy of benefiting from conflict. China is already self dependent in heavy arms manufacturing, India is slow but reaching there. In probably next 20 years, US monopoly on defense equipment will end.
- mcosta 13y agoI'm pretty confident in 20 years those countries will be 15 years behind USA weapons.
- chris_wot 13y agoI seem to recall another empire once said that the sun would never set over it.
- atmosx 13y agoReally? Back in 1999 I could not have imagined that although in 2008 Georgia would invade S. Ossetia with the blessings of the USA, will get slapped by the Russian army that way and the USA will just ... do nothing about it. Nor that in 2013 an NSA employee will be in Russia embarrassing the USA like this, without the USA doing nothing. It's not that Obama is good and G. W. Bush is bad. It's more that the times are A changin'.
- internalaudit 13y agoBrazil did not state this publicly but everybody understood it that way. Boeing was definitely bound to install NSA malware in the fighter jets. Nobody has the slightest doubt about that.