Saudi Arabia is heavily bombing Yemen, more or less constantly, and the bombs they drop don’t exactly grow on trees. The bombs, rather, come from US arms makers, and President Trump is looking to get more of them in Saudi hands as soon as possible.
The $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis is just part of the unprecedented influx of weaponry the Saudis are about to see from the United States, and today’s failed Senate vote was really the last obstacle trying to block the US from delivering more munitions to the Saudis to continue their war.
The first smart bombs, part of a 2015 deal which had been frozen by President Obama under intense pressure from human rights groups, are expected to be delivered to Saudi Arabia shortly, with officials indicating last week that the plan was to have them in Saudi Arabia by month’s end.
Clearly, with the Senate no longer standing in the way, more will follow, and the smart bombs are just the start of a flurry of deliveries which will be worth in excess of $110 billion, and which over the course of the next decade will be worth in excess of $360 billion.
He should deliver smart bombs ON Saudi Arabia. Then Israel.
Very sad Trump very sad giving weapons to a brutal regime that supports violent Salafist Sunni jihadists like Al Qaida, Al Nusra and Islamic State. Nice to see Trump be exactly like Obama.
this traitor of a clown is the worst yet, he lied about everything, and now he is helping the saudi terrorist bunch bomb yemen, this liar needs to be removed……..when is everybody gonna wake up to this sellout?
The commenters and the article are silly.
Trump had to learn the truth, if the US stops making weapons, the economy will break down in a week and the US will never recover.
It will take years to turn back to an infrastructure and consumer economy (plus another major war).
All these people bemoaning the wars and the deliveries, don’t look at the simple data.
All the motor manufacturers, the Plane manufacturers, the Computer industry and chemical industries would close immediately.
Then the service and distribution, retail and medical as there would be no money to pay for anything.
200 million Americans would starve within the month, not pretty.
Wake up people.
Winston Churchill once said :
“We have to look at facts, because those facts are looking at us.”