{"id":26273,"date":"2024-04-19T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26273"},"modified":"2024-04-19T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:31:36","slug":"the-united-states-provides-40-million-in-defense-funding-to-argentina-which-intends-to-become-a-nato-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26273","title":{"rendered":"The United States provides $40 million in defense funding to Argentina, which intends to become a NATO partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>According to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which has expressed its desire to become a global partner of NATO, will receive $40 million in defense funds from the United States.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The source said: &#8220;The United States announced that it will provide Argentina with US$40 million for defense modernization upgrades under the &#8216;Foreign Military Financing Plan.&#8217; Argentina will receive foreign military financing from the United States for the first time after 2003.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. Embassy said only key partners receive such support. Argentina can use the funds to purchase defense products, obtain training services and strengthen cooperation with the US military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The embassy said: &#8220;This fund will help Argentina carry out military modernization and upgrades and help it purchase F-16 fighter jets.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Previously, Argentina purchased 24 second-hand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240416\/1058443908.html\">F-16<\/a>&nbsp;fighter jets from Denmark. Denmark&#8217;s decision to sell was taken in close cooperation with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petry said on Thursday that Argentina hopes to become a global partner of NATO and has submitted a relevant application to NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Milai government of Argentina, which came to power in December last year, has implemented the policy of comprehensive cooperation with the United States and Western countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240419\/1058504498.html\">Sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which has expressed its desire to become a global partner of NATO, will receive $40 million in defense funds from the United States. The source said: &#8220;The United States announced that it will provide Argentina with US$40 million for defense modernization upgrades under the &#8216;Foreign Military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[6101,27906,27907,1835,21056],"class_list":["post-26273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-argentina","tag-defense-funds","tag-military-financing","tag-nato","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26275,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions\/26275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}