President Donald Trump has become a relentless booster for weapon sales to Saudi Arabia, despite the kingdom’s increasing authoritarianism under the rule of its de-facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The president has bragged at times that arms deals with the country would create anywhere from 500,000 to “over a million” jobs. Even after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi put pressure on the United States to reconsider its alliance with the country, Trump released a lengthy statement defending the kingdom, noting specifically that its commitment to buy US weapons “will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, tremendous economic development, and much additional wealth for the United States.”
Well, according to a new report, those claims haven’t come close to panning out, despite the Trump administration fast-tracking $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates last year. (In an interesting confluence of news, we now know this move was being investigated by the State Department inspector general who Trump fired last week.)
A report from the left-leaning think tank Center for International Policy looks at Trump’s major […]
Saudi Arabia has the oil; that’s where the oil is. It is also the country that produced the airline thieves who flew into the World Trade Center, and were the only country’s people who were let out of the country immediately after 9/11, producing many questions about the role they played in that suspicious tragedy, which was NEVER resolved.
On a more local note, right here in Pa. we are seeing a lot of “Henry rifle sales” which we never saw before. Are we seeing the beginning of an outright revolution with guns blazing?