Posted on 05/12/2017 8:33:15 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Donald Trump's planned visit to Riyadh.
The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the arms package could end up surpassing more than $300 billion over a decade to help Saudi Arabia boost its defensive capabilities while still maintaining U.S. ally Israel's qualitative military edge over its neighbors.
"We are in the final stages of a series of deals," the official said. The package is being developed to coincide with Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia. Trump leaves for the kingdom on May 19, the first stop on his maiden international trip.
Reuters reported last week that Washington was pushing through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, some new, others already in the pipeline, ahead of Trump's visit.
The United States has been the main supplier for most Saudi military needs, from F-15 fighter jets to command and control systems worth tens of billions of dollars in recent years. Trump has vowed to stimulate the U.S. economy by boosting manufacturing jobs.
The package includes American arms and maintenance, ships, air missile defense and maritime security, the official said. "We'll see a very substantial commitment ... In many ways it is intended to build capabilities for the threats they face."
The official added: "It's good for the American economy but it will also be good in terms of building a capability that is appropriate for the challenges of the region. Israel would still maintain an edge."
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Digging our own graves again. Apparently we learned nothing from 9/11.
So long as the (1) include remote, American-controlled self-destructs and (2) they renounce Islam.
This is not what a lot people voted for in November.
As the Saudis are fighting the Iranians in Yemen for a twisted sense of what Islamic supremacy should look like.
God help us all.
well this is all good. Zero gave the Iranians 150B. So this just balances things out. Maybe both sides can lose. We can always hope.
How stupid is this? The Saudis are 5000 member bunch of mafia perverts posing as a royal family. They are the source of much of the world’s current nuttiness. They are not friends of America
Insane. But Lenin was correct-— the capitalists will sell (for a profit) the role by which they’ll be hung.
Obama and the traitor rinos just got done arming the Iranian islamonazis with nukes and icbm’s under development to destroy us. And now the new administration wants to ship an obscene huge pile off advanced weaponry to another enemy-at-it’s-core islamonazi dictatorship? We are sold out, doomed. .
Saudi Arabia, #1 funding source for madrassas and mosques in the USA.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses/madrassas.html
http://nypost.com/2016/04/16/how-saudi-arabia-undermines-the-united-states/
Just say no to Whabbism.
And of course the 15 Saudi 9/11 terrorists.
These Islamo nutjobs don’t give two s**ts about where there money or influence comes from.
They don’t even care if they lose battles along the way since they can use that to recruit more fanatics to their cause.
They seem to actually want to “Pick a fight” with any Politician that suggests they will try to stop them.
One would think their terrorist activities around the world would be counter productive and lend itself to a more aggressive push back. Lend itself to their defeat.
They want a war.
They don’t want another Chamberlain.
They want a war.
I don’t think that there has ever been a time in history in which the threat to one’s own existence, how it has established itself in the social fabric of our political and media class, is so ignorantly and militantly embraced.
These Islamo Nazi’s are both victims and the aggressors.
If the west fights back they are victims.
Their aggression is wrapped up in some retarded sense of “Cultural relativism”, an inability among the secular humanist left to distinguish or recognize that all religions are NOT equal.
It will be wasted against Iran, so no biggie.
A New Yorker selling arms and or defenses to the homeland of Bin Laden? I don’t know many NY people, but it strikes me as insanity.
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