{"id":513781,"date":"2010-04-04T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/video-of-vladimir-putin-and-hugo-chavez-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-04T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T15:54:00","slug":"uh-oh-putin-happy-to-sell-weapons-to-hugo-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513781","title":{"rendered":"Uh Oh: Putin Happy To Sell Weapons To Hugo Chavez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It got some media attention this week, but Russia&#8217;s energy and defense deal with Venezuela &#8212; culminating in a showy joint press conference between Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez &#8212; probably deserves more of your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is not subtle. As you&#8217;ll see in the video below (courtesy of Russian state-funded network Russia Today) Putin comes right out and says: if the US won&#8217;t sell weapons to Venezuela, we will!<\/p>\n<p>And of course, with Venezuela in dire straits economically, they have every reason to seek alliances with parties that will bother the US. Watch the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s good reason to still believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-need-to-boot-russia-out-of-the-brics-2010-1\">Russia itself is toast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RVAdxFWLfig&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RVAdxFWLfig&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/video-of-vladimir-putin-and-hugo-chavez-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/mi39Dxw5iqg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got some media attention this week, but Russia&#8217;s energy and defense deal with Venezuela &#8212; culminating in a showy joint press conference between Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez &#8212; probably deserves more of your attention. Putin is not subtle. As you&#8217;ll see in the video below (courtesy of Russian state-funded network Russia Today) Putin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}