Looks like Saudi Arabia is preparing for internal strife. What is India preparing for? It’s good to be an American arms dealer. Your bought off politicians promote chaos and war across the globe, and your profits soar. Spreading American democracy has never been so lucrative.
According to IHS Jane’s, Saudi Arabia has displaced India as the world’s biggest importer of defense equipment. Saudi arms imports increased 54 percent between 2013 and 2014, reaching $6.46 billion. To put the scale of the Middle East’s booming weapons trade into perspective, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates imported $8.6 billion of military equipment in 2014 – that’s more than the defense imports of Western Europe combined.
With the Kingdom reinforcing its armed forces to counter regional threats such as Iran and the Islamic State, weapons shipments are set to increase even further in volume. Ongoing deliveries of advanced weapons systems including F-15 and Typhoon fighter jets are going to boost imports 52 percent in 2015 to $9.9 billion. Worldwide, India is in second place with defense imports in 2014 amounting to $5.57 billion. China completes the top three, spending $2.6 billion on arms imports in 2014.
You will find more statistics at Statista
Six and a half billion is chump change for the Saudis. Funny how all those arms keep ending up in other places that the USA!USA!USA! declares the new bad guys. Does that 6.46 billion count in our GDP? We are now a service/war society.
All those airplanes and it is a known fact they have only two pilots; Mustaffa and Sayeed, here
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They had three pilots, but they found out he was a she, and they took away her license. They she gave head …. errr, I mean lost her head.
She even shaved her armits.
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Stucky she must have been taking “Walk On The Wild Side” :
Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody’s darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
Said, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
And the colored girls go
“Doo do doo do doo do do doo…”
Gotta love Lou Reed may he RIP.
Bob.
Weapons are the U.S. biggest export. No wonder our foreign affairs goal is to stir up shit.
+1 Westcoaster.
That, and the oligarchs own controlling interests in all the major oil companies, and the sprawling U.S. military is the largest consumer of oil on the Planet.
All geopolitical drama is about the power and wealth of a relative handful of people, and they couldn’t care less about the death and suffering their policies cause because they see the rest of humanity as either pretty whores to screw or insects to make them their honey.
The money only stops long enough to wet a few rich guys hands, the bulk of production, comes from Asia.
This is what our dollars have provided. We are buying future death.
Wonder how one would even begin to atone for this?