• btsax@reddthat.com
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      1 day ago

      They say they want to, but when the time comes, the legislation they pass (if any) will either be so hopelessly complex or so devoid of enforcement that they might as well have done nothing

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          3 days ago

          Suadi Arabia receives more than double the amount of arms than Israel, wtf

          This is a cartoon country

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            That can’t be accurate, Israel has the most advanced military gear in the world. Saudi Arabia does not. We don’t traditionally give them the newest stuff either but older generation gear, although the president I think agreed to sell them f-35s, if they ever finish the program.

            We give them like 2.4 billion a year in military assistance, then after the ghetto uprising we sent them 14 billion to fund their ghetto reprisals. We since sent them more, shipments of assault rifles periodically to hand out to settlers at a minimum. We sell them gear at sweetheart prices, we’ve exported a bunch of our tech to allow them to make their own gear, both in countries across the west and inside their own country as well.

            So however they are counting this amount of arms is wrong, Israel receives more. Although the Saudis of course are milked for cash I’ve no doubt they paid more money than Israel did, that does not more than double what they get for it.