In the back of my mind I am wondering if Saudis will now put the kabosh on some people’s antics through back door channels...like Mccain.
The Saudis can buy the best equipment in the world and it would not matter. Their common soldiers and pilots thus far have demonstrated no real competence or martial spirit. their performance in Yemen has been abysmal. The reality is that they are unwilling to die on behalf of the vile, corrupt Saudi “royals”. Soon the wealth and brutal repressions will not be able to stop the inevitable. Islamic culture is not compatible with the values, institutions and practices of modernity. The chronic violence and instability in the Mideast is the result of Islamic culture’s inability to transform or respond to the challenge of modernity. Despite the oil wealth, “Saudi” Arabia is a poor investment.
This is a technology transfer, whether anyone will call it that or not. Sikorsky is also now producing, or soon will be producing helicopters in India.
Once the Saudis (and Indians) learn the technology and manufacturing processes of producing various weapons systems, it'll be so long American company which mostly invented and developed the products others want to eventually produce.
The same goes for just about every produce a US company ever produced in China.
I think for military weapons, US companies should produce them in the US and sell them where allowed around the world, but this scheme will mostly serve to set up foreign nations to produce their own weapons in the future.
Better have Americans doing Quality Assurance. I have not heard good things about the work ethic in the Arab culture.
Ok, can someone here explain a few things to me, not yelling at me, just a few oddball questions here. Honestly I was cheering yesterday at the display happening Riyadh. Until a few quirky brain cells fired up...and here’s what they thought.
The 9/11 hijackers came from here.
Rudy turned down money offered by SA to rebuild.
Isn’t Saudi Arabia the one supporting rebels in Syria?
Why in that case, would we willing do business in arms like this? McCain must be cheering in the background!
Obama OK’d a nuclear Iran...
Trump cuts a $110 billion dollar deal with Saudi...
Can anyone really explain to me what we are doing? Other than a change in administration, what is the end game here? Our security? It sure seems like we’re playing with fire and what? We haven’t been burned enough already?
Trump IS a turncoat.
Arming our enemies AND giving the jobs.
What’s not to like?
“If Allah WILLS the tank to start, the tank will start.”
“The prince swings the sword, the slave sharpens it.”
It will be interesting to see how they overcome these views.
employment in Saudi maybe gets smoothed out
I like the deal. It is just another one of those things that confounds the ardent Trump supporters. Like no wall and no trade wars. I repeat this at every chance: 1. Great SC nominees 2. Immigration sanity. All else is gravy.
O set the ME aflame and it was on the verge of burning us. Now President Trump will have to go to heroic lengths just to resettle the region so that the chaos doesn’t spread here. I see this deal as exactly that. Israel, Saud, Jordan, UAE will be the NATO of the ME.
I can see there is some debate here. I’d prefer the jobs on the helicopters go to Americans.
But if I had to choose to defend the Saudi’s with US weapons at US expense or having them defend themselves with their own weapons at their expense, I’d choose the latter.
Am I wrong here?