Saudi Uproar

Discussion in 'Politics' started by dealmaker, Oct 12, 2018.

  1. carrer

    carrer

    I am sure he understood that whatever he was exposing will get him killed someday.
     
    #71     Oct 21, 2018
  2. ElCubano

    ElCubano

    Technology. Not to mention sloppy ass work buddy. They would have been better off paying a bum to make it look like a random robbery outside.
     
    #72     Oct 21, 2018
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  3. dealmaker

    dealmaker

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    #73     Oct 21, 2018
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  4. dealmaker

    dealmaker

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    #74     Oct 21, 2018
  5. dealmaker

    dealmaker

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    #75     Oct 21, 2018
  6. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    Narrow minded dumb asses like you are more likely to totally lose it and kill other Americans then the vast majority of immigrants.
     
    #76     Oct 21, 2018
  7. loik

    loik

    In regards to killing/abducting on foreign soil?
     
    #77     Oct 21, 2018
  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

     
    #78     Oct 21, 2018
  9. drcha

    drcha

    Yes, exactly, and by beheading them. Not to mention all the Yemenis they have killed. So why are we acting like we give a shit? Why is Peggy Noonan writing a stupid editorial saying that the US used to act (any maybe should continue to act) ashamed of selling weapons to the world? Since when do we have shame about anything? Just another example of doublethink.

    MBS and the Saudis are probably scratching their heads trying to figure out how they pissed everyone off and what unwritten rule they violated. The rules make no sense.
     
    #79     Oct 21, 2018
  10. At the end of the day, money talks and unfortunately, this horrible incident will fade and we will be back to business as usual, Saudis have us by our balls (oil and weapons) and it is not just this administration. just check these facts:

    "In 2013–17 Saudi Arabia was the world’s second largest arms importer, with arms imports increasing by 225 percent compared with 2008–12. By the end of 2017 many more weapons were on order, indicating continuing high levels of arms transfers for at least five more years. The previous peak in Saudi Arabia’s arms imports occurred in 1995–99, when it was also the world’s second largest arms importer. However, its arms imports in 2013–17 were 48 percent higher than those in 1995–99. Unlike in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia now uses the weapons it has imported in large-scale combat, in particular in Yemen.
    In 2013–17, 61 per cent of Saudi Arabia’s arms imports came from the USA and 23 per cent from the UK. Deliveries during this period included 78 combat aircraft, 72 combat helicopters, 328 tanks and about 4000 other armoured vehicles.
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    for more info, see the actual paper:
    https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/fssipri_at2017_0.pdf
     
    #80     Oct 22, 2018