With Saudi Arabia forever escalating their war in Yemen, the growing calls by human rights groups to stop selling them arms with which to commit war crimes are struggling to compete with the vast sums of money the Saudis are offering for those arms.
Germany is the latest to renege on promises to ban weapons sales for use in the Yemen War, announcing Wednesday that the Economy Minister has greenlit a new round of artillery systems for sale to the Saudis.
The systems are designed for precise counterattack, and are clearly being bought explicitly to use in Yemen. Yet the Merkel government, as part of its coalition deal, announced a full export ban to “any sides fighting in Yemen,” including the Saudis.
While this was at the time supposed to be a condition of the Social Democrats joining the government. So far, Merkel has not explained why the sale was approved over the putative ban, and the Social Democrats have not complained either.
Money speaks louder than ethics.
Well put.
Here’s a possible explanation:
“The state treaty, dated May 21, 1949 and classified by BND as top
secret, suggests restrictions of state sovereignty of the Federal
Republic of Germany, introduced for a period until 2099” http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-183232
Neither has Israel complained ….. how come it`s NOT mentioned here?
Israel rarely complains when Arabs or Muslims die, or are being butchered..
Damn Lotta blood on Merkel”s hands….
Disgusting… I’m beginning to really loathe that old broad… She is getting more and evermore vile with every pissing day. We know the Germans can be hyper evil, but they have at least attempted to be only a little horrible since their Third Reich dayz
This helping the perpetrators of nine 11 to genocide the Yemeni is beyond unforgivable. It’s almost as bad as how they liquidated the Jews… Something very wrong with these Germans to get mixed up in helping the evil Saudis kill the hapless Yemenis…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!