[SJackson]

It is the opposite, the UAE has given over 2 trillion dollars in contracts to 500 different American companies in the last 5 years and brought up your debt. Two trillion dollars is not small change even for the US.

Considering it would be about 20 times their annual GDP of a little over $100 billion and 200 times their reported trade with the US of about $10 billion, indeed, it's not small change for the UAE. Or, at 1 1/2 years our annual exports, not small change for the US either.

[jec41]

10 billion is our trade with them . Contracts are not trade or GDP. The contract with American construction companies to build the off shore Islands of the UAE was over 1 trillion. Just the latest with Boeing for a satellite contract was a billion. Boeing also sells them 50 million in aircraft but what people don't notice is the service contracts last years and are larger. We are also building the worlds tallest building there and have tons of building contracts.