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Biden Freezes Arms Sales To Saudis & UAE, Including Large F-35 Jet Transfer | |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77691926 United States01/27/2021 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. |
| Moses Born Again
User ID: 73883564 United States01/27/2021 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.zerohedge.com (secure)] On Wednesday the Biden administration issued a freeze of all US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at a moment Congressional scrutiny of America's support to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen grows. US involvement in the war goes all the way back to the Obama administration, with Trump also in the last months of his presidency approving billions in new arms sales to the kingdom. In particular Lockheed Martin produced F-35 stealth fighters that were set to be transferred to the UAE the have been "temporarily" blocked along with munitions to the Saudis, among other sales. Prior reports suggested the prior Trump deal was to send as many as 50 advanced F-35 fighters to the UAE. "That sale and several other massive purchases of U.S. weaponry by Gulf Arab countries had been harshly criticized by Democrats in Congress," the report added. The State Department said of the "temporary pause" that it is "temporarily pausing the implementation of some pending U.S. defense transfers and sales under Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales to allow incoming leadership an opportunity to review." And Axios further details that "The sales of F-35 jets and attack drones to the UAE and a large supply of munitions to Saudi Arabia will be paused pending a review." It added that it "signals a major policy shift from the Trump era, and may herald sharp tensions with both Gulf countries."  Moses Born Again |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 57553864 United States01/27/2021 11:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud.  PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| Notaguru1979
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| ><even
User ID: 79827759 United States01/27/2021 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Biden will start a war in under 3 months. I reserve the right to declare my comments and posts as satire. Nothing I post should be considered or interpreted as advocacy for illegal activity. My comments are designed to inspire critical political thinking. I only mean half of what I say and only say half of what I mean. |
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| reversefiction
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79370084 United States01/27/2021 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. Yeah, let's keep selling the Arabs weapons we will be fighting against in a few years. Make sense to you? Let them buy weapons from Russia, who the Hell cares. |
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| reversefiction
User ID: 79458430 United States01/27/2021 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Because he is slowing arms sales to the wahhabist Saudis, led by Mohammed Bone Saw? Yeah, I fail to see how this is going to start a war. Nothing ever happens in isolation. They just sent our B52s over to the middle east today. Don't know if you caught that. // My definition of insanity. bool try() { return false; } void insanity() { bool success = false; while(!success) { if(try()) { break; } } } |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76537607  Nepal01/27/2021 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77691926 United States01/27/2021 11:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. Yeah, let's keep selling the Arabs weapons we will be fighting against in a few years. Make sense to you? Let them buy weapons from Russia, who the Hell cares. We don't fight all arab nations. I don't recall many issues with the UAE that should stop us from selling them weapons. In fact I seem to recall they have been an ally in several middle eastern conflicts with us. Should we not be selling allies our weapons? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 69623018 United States01/27/2021 11:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | that's my president!!! Trump tried to sell the musicians Muslims all of America secret stealth technology!! all the while claiming to be Americas savior if it wasn't for Biden, the Muslims would have stealth technology... American stealth technology |
| reversefiction
User ID: 79458430 United States01/27/2021 11:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. Yeah, let's keep selling the Arabs weapons we will be fighting against in a few years. Make sense to you? Let them buy weapons from Russia, who the Hell cares. We don't fight all arab nations. I don't recall many issues with the UAE that should stop us from selling them weapons. In fact I seem to recall they have been an ally in several middle eastern conflicts with us. Should we not be selling allies our weapons? Not to mention the landmark peace deal that Trump did towards the end of his administration. That opened up trade between UAE and Israel for the first time since ever... Biden is reposturing. // My definition of insanity. bool try() { return false; } void insanity() { bool success = false; while(!success) { if(try()) { break; } } } |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77691926 United States01/27/2021 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bidens only motivation is to undue something trump did. With no consideration beyond that. Because he's a one dimensional clown, just like his supporters. Add to the fact that reversing anything trump did is automatically going to cause instability in the region and it's a win win for his foolish supporters and his shadow puppets in the MIC. |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 57553864 United States01/27/2021 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19939638  Germany01/27/2021 11:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. China does not want US weapons sold to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It is simple as that. China now directs foreign policy through Biden's shadow government. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74576133 United States01/27/2021 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76537607 Nepal01/27/2021 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. Yeah, let's keep selling the Arabs weapons we will be fighting against in a few years. Make sense to you? Let them buy weapons from Russia, who the Hell cares. We don't fight all arab nations. I don't recall many issues with the UAE that should stop us from selling them weapons. In fact I seem to recall they have been an ally in several middle eastern conflicts with us. Should we not be selling allies our weapons? Not to mention the landmark peace deal that Trump did towards the end of his administration. That opened up trade between UAE and Israel for the first time since ever... Biden is reposturing. LOL Uhhh, do your research. It was definitely not landmark but mostly symbolic. Typical Trump/Kushner lipstick. |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 57553864 United States01/27/2021 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bidens only motivation is to undue something trump did. With no consideration beyond that. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Because he's a one dimensional clown, just like his supporters. Add to the fact that reversing anything trump did is automatically going to cause instability in the region and it's a win win for his foolish supporters and his shadow puppets in the MIC. That's what I was thinking! He's signed like what 17 to 20 EO's already? Maybe more PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 57553864 United States01/27/2021 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud. China does not want US weapons sold to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It is simple as that. China now directs foreign policy through Biden's shadow government. Good point! PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
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| Tooknotice
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77691926 United States01/27/2021 11:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hopefully biden doesn't find out about the squirrel that trump has been feeding in the white house garden. Otherwise he'd send out a few SS agents to go strangle it to death while recording the look in it's eyes as the light goes out. All he's been doing, is inverting trumps moves. It's sad, but it satisfies the pundits. |
| CCP Virus dodger007
User ID: 77690112 United States01/27/2021 11:53 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They'll just spend that money somewhere else, russia or china. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Look, weapons sales is messy, but trump was right, it will mean a good chunk of money for US arms manufacturers. This is just the same short sighted nonsense like cutting off our energy production that will cause less money coming into this country and require more taxes to make up for. Biden is a dud.  Strategically a really bad move, but probably what we can expect from 2014’s foreign policy team back in charge You can count on America to do the right thing after exhausting every other alternative." Winston Churchill |
| Question EVERYTHING
Traveler In The Matrix User ID: 79948149 United States01/27/2021 11:54 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.zerohedge.com (secure)] Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket On Wednesday the Biden administration issued a freeze of all US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at a moment Congressional scrutiny of America's support to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen grows. US involvement in the war goes all the way back to the Obama administration, with Trump also in the last months of his presidency approving billions in new arms sales to the kingdom. In particular Lockheed Martin produced F-35 stealth fighters that were set to be transferred to the UAE the have been "temporarily" blocked along with munitions to the Saudis, among other sales. Prior reports suggested the prior Trump deal was to send as many as 50 advanced F-35 fighters to the UAE. "That sale and several other massive purchases of U.S. weaponry by Gulf Arab countries had been harshly criticized by Democrats in Congress," the report added. The State Department said of the "temporary pause" that it is "temporarily pausing the implementation of some pending U.S. defense transfers and sales under Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales to allow incoming leadership an opportunity to review." And Axios further details that "The sales of F-35 jets and attack drones to the UAE and a large supply of munitions to Saudi Arabia will be paused pending a review." It added that it "signals a major policy shift from the Trump era, and may herald sharp tensions with both Gulf countries." So, now we'll see the resurgence of ISIS in the middle east since Saudi Arabia funded them... They are setting up the old chess board before Trump mated them 4 years ago... Biden and his warmongering allies that want to continue the military industrial complex is as telling as just about anything we've ever seen, in that peace does not sell weapons. I hope all of the war hating biden voters out there are starting get the larger picture. Last Edited by Question EVERYTHING on 01/27/2021 11:55 PM First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." ~ George Orwell "The exact level of tyranny that you're going to live under, is the level of tyranny you put up with." ~Thomas Jefferson "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
| reversefiction
User ID: 79458430 United States01/27/2021 11:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LOL Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76537607 You guys forget about 9/11? Patriots! Psssshhhh... SA is NOT our friend. Nepal? What's that about? Word is that it was an inside job. He's probably gotta bounce out of the chinese mainland to get access to this site. He picked Nepal cause they're known for their involvement in geopolitics... (that was a joke, they're known for mountains and shirpas.) // My definition of insanity. bool try() { return false; } void insanity() { bool success = false; while(!success) { if(try()) { break; } } } |
| CCP Virus dodger007
User ID: 77690112 United States01/27/2021 11:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bidens only motivation is to undue something trump did. With no consideration beyond that. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77691926 Because he's a one dimensional clown, just like his supporters. Add to the fact that reversing anything trump did is automatically going to cause instability in the region and it's a win win for his foolish supporters and his shadow puppets in the MIC. That's what I was thinking! He's signed like what 17 to 20 EO's already? Maybe more 37 In his first week You can count on America to do the right thing after exhausting every other alternative." Winston Churchill |
