Trump Approves $1 Billion Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia

[r3volution 3.0]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/22/trump-administration-approves-1b-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia-including-more-than-6500-missiles.html


The White House told Congress Thursday that it plans to approve a $1 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a package that includes about 6,700 U.S.-built anti-tank missiles. The sale also includes support, maintenance and spare parts for American tanks, helicopters and other equipment already in Saudi Arabia's arsenal. Lawmakers have 30 days to act if they want to try and stop the deal...Earlier this week the Senate debated and then shelved a resolution calling for an end to U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Mattis had opposed the measure...

Well, at least Hillary didn't win and do the exact same thing; that would've been really bad.

#MakeYemenPaleolithicAgain

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/trump-asks-saudi-crown-prince-to-share-wealth-by-buying-us-weapons.html


Trump asks Saudi crown prince to share kingdom's wealth by buying more American weapons

President Donald Trump on Tuesday implored Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince to share his nation's wealth by continuing to purchase American-made weapons.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States' role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi-led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

In opening remarks before a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Trump crowed about the sales, running through a list of $12.5 billion in approved arms purchases by Saudi Arabia and previewing billions more to come.

"Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world," Trump said.

"There's nobody even close, as I said before, when it comes to the missiles and the planes and all of the military equipment," Trump said. "There's nobody that even comes close to us in terms of technology and the quality of the equipment, and Saudi Arabia appreciates that."

[timosman]

Sharing is caring.:cool:

[Swordsmyth]

The Saudis can't afford it, this will accelerate their collapse.

(That is not a defense of Trump)

[TheCount]

The Saudis can't afford it, this will accelerate their collapse.

(That is not a defense of Trump)
LOL

[shakey1]

This will fix everything.:rolleyes:

[AZJoe]

Trump Showcases the Weapons he is providing to the head-chopping, genocidal, Wahhabi, terrorist factory, dictatorship Saudi regime.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=9O0uR03s7m4

[phill4paul]

Somewhere in the CROMNIBUS he probably gave the Saudi's a billion so the could do this. MAGA!!!!!

[Anti Globalist]

Wait a minute. I thought the Saudis were supposed to be pissed off that Trump won the election. They look pretty happy to me.

[AZJoe]

Feting Blood Soaked Saudi Dictator (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49069.htm)

Bin Salman is the de facto leader of the desert kingdom … consolidated his autocratic power last year in a purge against other members of the House of Saud, in which hundreds of rivals where rounded up, detained, reportedly (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5108651/American-mercenaries-torturing-Saudi-princes.html) tortured, and shaken down for billions of dollars.

MBS was feted by Trump … because of the giant weapons purchases he has made … In a bizarre photo-op, Trump held up gaudy cardboard posters proclaiming various multi-million-dollar arms sales to the Saudi regime. … a grubby spectacle of just how sordid the decades-old relationship is …

MBS was visiting Washington in the same week, marking three relentless years of US-backed Saudi slaughter in Yemen. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman … is the architect of the Saudi war in Yemen. The United Nations has called (https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/11/570262-yemen-facing-largest-famine-world-has-seen-decades-warns-un-aid-chief) the conflict in the Arab region’s poorest country “the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.” Some eight million people – a third of the population – are facing starvation, largely because the Saudi-led war has blockaded the country … The war is all about trying to re-install a puppet leader, …

What is going on in Yemen is nothing short of a bloodbath. Arguably, it is a genocide …

Trump’s hosting of the Saudi crown prince this week in the White House is an obscenity. Celebrating the sale of warplanes, tanks, missiles and other munitions was a macabre drooling over the slaughter of thousands of innocents. …

What is truly disturbing is how little concern the US-enabled carnage in Yemen provokes in official Washington circles … For Yemen, the official silence in Washington is astounding. The very personification of the Yemeni horror – a blood-soaked Saudi despot – is welcomed and cheered …