illusion8
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Rationalization isn't something I have been interested in , there was and always has been a single user for RD-93 , the buying party was irrelevant in the wider picture as it had to merely pass the engines , the doctrine of " we do not sell to your enemies " was violated and some would say in broad daylight , Russians actually had made the sale to Pakistan knowing fully well where they were to end in . A simple protest symbolic in nature of course , made with Beijing after the sale would have sufficed and given you a better defense here , instead of feeble and weak , we do not interfere in each other's sales .
What are you driving at - that the Russians were desperate enough to sell it to Pakistan over and above our objection? I don't have a problem if that's what you believe in. The statement that they would never sell it to our adversary was a marketing gimmick, them selling to China makes that statement ridiculous anyways.
The real picture with the RD 93 sale is that it solely happened because the Chinese technically were the buyers, I dont think the Russians would have ignored our objection if Pakistan had proposed to buy it directly - and that's how it was.