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President Trump has stated his unwillingness to impose any kind of punishment on Saudi Arabia following their alleged involvement in the murder of journalist and permanent U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. The U.S. is the world’s biggest exporter of arms and according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the biggest importer from the country in 2017 was Saudi Arabia.
This infographic uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s “trend-indicator values” (TIV). These are based on the known unit production costs of weapons and represent the transfer of military resources rather than the financial value of the transfer.
Trump’s lethal arms sales to the asswipes in Kiev are largely “off the books?”
If you associate with criminals, then you are guilty by association. That is how the law works.
Until the US begins to include ethics and morality in their foreign policy, we will continue to degrade as a nation. Our government is corrupt, and our people too cowardly to stand up to our government.
didn’t jimmy carter include ethics/morality in his foreign policy?
how’d that work out?
So when you side with the people who chop up an American resident who is telling the world about criminal governments, that makes you one of the good guys? In that case let’s all throw morals and ethics out the window and revert to survival of the strongest. Laws just get in the way of having a good time anyway……..
And shouldn’t do anything, except pull out of the insane war in Yemen.
When I first heard about George Zimmerman, it was that he went out looking for an innocent black kid to shoot. Turned out he’d gotten jumped by the kid and was getting his head bashed into a sidewalk when he shot out of self defense. The Zimmerman-Martin incident was brought to light by left wingers through Change.org in order to motivate black voters.
When I first heard about Michael Brown it was that he was shot by a cop while holding his hands up and saying “don’t shoot”. Turned out he was a drug-crazed hothead who’d just punched a cop, tried to wrest the cop’s gun from him and had started to charge the cop when he was felled. The fake “hands up, don’t shoot” yarn was crafted to motivate black voters.
We heard that Bashar Assad gassed a bunch of children on the outskirts of Damascus in 2013. It seems more likely that if any gassing happened at all it was by Sunni jihadis looking to frame Assad and to incite America to bomb Assad – a tactic we’d just fallen for in Libya.
We all just heard that Brett Kavanaugh had attacked a girl when he was 17. Then we found out that the accuser hadn’t told a living soul about the supposed attack for 30 years, was a leftist and was caught in numerous other lies.
Now we’re presented with supposed evidence by the notoriously devious Erdogan government that the Saudi government- which they hate – killed an opposing journalist (ostensibly because Trump has legitimized attacking journalists). We’re told that Kashoggi never left the Saudi embassy (in one piece). Is it possible that the Saudis sent a team of easily-traceable assassins to murder a guy inside their own embassy in a foreign country – despite the obvious fact that the embassy is surrounded by cameras? Sure I guess it’s possible. Just like it was theoretically possible that 5’7″ porker Zimmerman, armed with a pistol, would initiate a fistfight with 5’11” Martin. And it would make as little sense.
I’m not an adherent of the theory that Mohammed bin Salman will deliver peace and tolerance to the Middle East, but let’s let this thing play out for a while before we conclude what did or did not happen.
Wheels within wheels perhaps.
By his own testimony, Darren Wilson was seated in the patrol car with the door closed when Michael Brown hit him. In the image linked below, the wounds are on the right side of his face. There is far more to that case than you have told. https://goo.gl/images/eqimeB
You’re right. I left out that Brown had robbed the store, that he and Dorian Johnson were walking down the middle of the street babbling incoherently (according to the workers they walked past), that Mike Brown’s fingertip was blown off inside the patrol car when Wilson’s gun first discharged (proving that Brown had grubbed Wilson’s gun), that there were abrasions on Brown’s knees demonstrating forward movement when he hit the ground and that there was a blood drop 15 feet behind his feet – again showing that he’d been moving toward Wilson when he was fatally shot.
Only $500M to Israel? Clearly understated/wrong, which makes me question the rest of the numbers.
This will explain it, TC. “This infographic uses the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s “trend-indicator values” (TIV). These are based on the known unit production costs of weapons and represent the transfer of military resources rather than the financial value of the transfer.” Got it? Do you wonder why they want us to care about this so badly? Do you wonder why they continue to describe this guy as a journalist? Look at the people who are squawking about this. Look at what those people want as a punishment. They want to stop this arms sale. The guy is a fucking Khashoggi for God’s sake. End of story
The problem is when the Sauds get over run, those billion in arms are going to radicals either Shiite or Sunni. Then arms we sold will be directed at our troops or citizens once again.