Posted on 03/30/2014 7:01:20 AM PDT by SJackson
As US president Barack Obama looks to mend ties with Saudi Arabia in Riyadh today, the Saudis hope to shore up regional support. Their $1.5 billion gift has raised suspicions among Pakistanis.
Pakistan announced last week that it received a $1.5 billion grant from Saudi Arabia, which it termed a “friendly gift” and an “unconditional grant.”
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long had warm ties, but the no-strings-attached gift sparked immediate concern from Pakistani journalists, security experts, and opposition politicians, who question whether the grant is part of a behind-the-scenes deal for Pakistan to provide weapons for Syrian rebels.
“There are no free lunches in foreign diplomacy,” says Baqir Sajjad, a journalist at Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, which has published articles questioning the deal.
The grant was confirmed at a briefing by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on national security and foreign affairs, who also said that Saudi Arabia had agreed to purchase weapons from Pakistan.
The Pakistan government declined to specify what kind of weapons the Kingdom was looking for and denied that any arms purchased by Saudi Arabia will be sent to Syria. Pakistan, which has the sixth-largest army in the world, is known as a major arms importer, but it also sells fighter jets, anti-tank missiles, armored personal carriers, and small arms to Sri Lanka, Iraq, and Malaysia.
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WELL WELL WELL, very interesting
We just gave Ukraine $1 bil + $18 bil.
The Democrats are the Smartest People around!!!!!!
Let me see if I have this right...
Ukraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas) from Russia.
Revenues from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia.
Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia,
Russia is raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine.
Ukraine is almost broke
and
can’t afford the increase in the natural gas price because it would be forced into bankruptcy.
Obama (USA) just announced the United States is giving Ukraine $1 billion
to assist in paying for the higher priced natural gas it buys from Russia.
So, the United States (Obama) is actually giving Russia $1 billion because the money is just passing through Ukraine.
The first question:
Has Putin figured out a way to raise the price of his natural gas sales
and make the U.S. pay for the increase?
Next question:
Was he really in the KGB or was he a commodities trader?
If this analysis is accurate,
Putin just got Obama (the USA)
to pay him $1 billion by holding a press conference
and
trucking some troops across town from the Russian Navy base in Ukraine.
Who is the smartest guy in the room now?
“I’ll have more flexibility after I am reelected.” - really!!
Putin is the smarter cookie.
We just now paid him Danegeld.
Or the payload...
This mini-me antiChrist Obama is doing his best to have nukes going off in the Middle East within 15 years. I can just see him cackling when they do...... Obama Hussein is possessed
Why now?
3 words come to mind
Iranian Nuclear Program.
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