{"id":42092,"date":"2025-03-17T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42092"},"modified":"2025-03-17T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:54:38","slug":"adding-to-the-countrys-impoverishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/17\/adding-to-the-countrys-impoverishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding To The Country&#8217;s Impoverishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which I think is a fine headline for <em><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/em> or <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> to use. The source?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Portugal is getting cold feet about replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of Donald Trump \u2014\u00a0in one of the first examples of the U.S. president undermining a potential lucrative arms deal.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s air force has recommended buying Lockheed Martin F-35s, but when outgoing Defense Minister Nuno Melo was asked<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publico.pt\/2025\/03\/13\/politica\/entrevista\/nuno-melo-afasta-compra-f35-eua-causa-trump-mundo-ja-mudou-2125727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0by Portugese media P\u00fablico<\/a>\u00a0whether the government would follow that recommendation, he replied: \u201cWe cannot ignore the geopolitical environment in our choices. The recent position of the United States, in the context of NATO &#8230; must make us think about the best options, because the predictability of our allies is a greater asset to take into account.&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/portugal-rules-out-buying-f-35s-because-of-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps <em>Pacifists For Trump<\/em> will celebrate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which I think is a fine headline for The New York Times or WaPo to use. The source? Portugal is getting cold feet about replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of Donald Trump \u2014\u00a0in one of the first examples of the U.S. president undermining a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/03\/17\/adding-to-the-countrys-impoverishment\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42093,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions\/42093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}