Looks Like The WLB May Have Prematurely Ejaculated in Saudi Arabia

[Minimalist]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/6...=emaildkre

Looks like $110B Saudi arms deal is bullshit

(That's their headline - not mine.)

I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.

The Brookings piece goes on to note that some of the weapons 'sold' don't even exist yet. Nor do they necessarily add up, even if they were to happen at some undetermined future date, to $110 billion:

"Truth" is a foreign concept to the WLB.

[Chad32]

He's gone from shortchanging workers to shortchanging other countries now.

[Minimalist]

He always stiffed people.  Its what stiffs do.

[The Industrial Atheist]

As usual b.s. from Trump. But I'm happy we haven't sold more weapons to that Wahabi terror state yet.

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[vorlon13]

Then was the ISIS terror bombing in Iran a mistake ??

[Anomalocaris]

With the once fabled Saudi foreign reserve dwindling by about $200 billion a year and expected to reach zero around 2020, they are going to buy $100 billion in arms?

[vorlon13]

The possibility of Qatar's current pariah status might be the result of Russian hacking has been raised. Wonder if the Sauds had a finger in it too ?