Posted on 01/27/2021 7:25:42 PM PST by amorphous
President Joe Biden's administration has temporarily paused some pending arms sales to U.S. allies in order to review them, a U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday.
Reviews of this sort are typical for a new administration, but Donald Trump's administration was doing deals down to the wire, including one for 50 stealthy F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin as a side deal to the Abraham accords inked only moments before Biden was sworn into office.
The Department is temporarily pausing the implementation of some pending U.S. defense transfers and sales under Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales to allow incoming leadership an opportunity to review, the official said.
The F-35 jets are a major component of a $23 billion sale of high-tech armaments from General Atomics, Lockheed and Raytheon Technologies Corp to the United Arab Emirates.
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Got to help out his buds the Iranians.
Dude wants a piece of the action....
Walk on in Iran.
The bazaar is open.
More American jobs down the democrat toilet.
This doesn’t sound like anything that Hunter Biden can’t negotiate.
Seems that way
Waiting for his quid quo pro...
Valerie Jarrett is in charge
The Big Guy is expecting a taste.
So a mid east coalition was being formed of some unlikely partners against Iran and poof! Biden blows it up.
Once Lockheed gets the memo the deal will go through and Joe can buy himself another mansion.
Andwho was as one of the first to congratulate the demented one? Netanyahu. Bad move Bibi.
I lost quite a bit of respect for Netanyahu over that.
Hunter has to get his cut
And every job being lost is a high paying job. A career change when you're at the top of your gain?? And all this in two weeks.
Yep!
Why let the ME countries defend themselves against Iran when we have a million bodies that the communists who now rule us would love to commit to another 10-years of U.S. involved ME wars...
obunghole & hitlary still reign supreme...
I think biden wants to hold back until his domestic energy destruction plans are in place. Then Middle Eastern oil will be back to it’s glory days.
They want to buy American first but they’ll take European arms if forced to do it. Russia would love the business.
He must want 20% now.
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