News Analysis Russia is making inroads against democracies and traditional U.S. allies like the Philippines, India, and Turkey, with its supply of cheap but unreliable defense exports. The latest export win for Moscow came on Jan. 14, when Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana communicated that Manila approved an acquisition of the BrahMos supersonic missile system from an Indian-Russian joint venture. The BrahMos land-based PJ-10 cruise missile, which will be used by the Philippine Marines in an anti-ship capacity, is being sold by the group for just $375 million. The Philippines will acquire three batteries of missiles, consisting in total of six missile launchers, three radars, and three command and control centers. Each road-mobile launcher has three missile tubes. Deepening Manila-Beijing Ties The Philippine purchase is at least partly positive as a departure from Manila’s deepening relationship with Beijing. But the U.S. pullback from the Philippines that started in the early …