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May 17th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Above Photo: From news.antiwar.com
Note: President Obama made some big weapons deals but President Trump looks like he is on his way to being the all-time largest worldwide weapons dealer. The article below describes a massive $2 billion dollar deal with the United Arab Emirates. Trump is also on his way to the biggest deal ever with Saudi Arabia. Reuters reports:
“The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Riyadh.
“The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the arms package could end up surpassing more than $300 billion over a decade to help Saudi Arabia boost its defensive capabilities while still maintaining U.S. ally Israel’s qualitative military edge over its neighbors.”
These are not deals to be proud of as they will insure violence, unrest and chaos in the Middle East for a long-time to come.
US Approves $2 Billion Missile Sale to United Arab Emirates
The Pentagon has issued a statement today confirming that the US State Department has signed off on a $2 billion sale of US-made Patriot missiles to the United Arab Emirates, adding to the tiny Gulf nation’s ever growing military arsenal.
The sale includes 65 PAC-3 interceptors and 100 GEM-T missiles. It is unclear when the UAE intends to do with all these missiles, though the State Department was willing to sign off on it being in the “national security” interest of the US to make the sales.
That process virtually goes without saying at this point, as for years the US has been signing off on growing sales of arms across the Middle East, and anything but an immediate approval is extremely rare, and usually extremely temporary.
The UAE has shown interest in increased military operations abroad in recent years, both regionally and into Africa. It’s unclear what, if any, military value such massively expensive missiles would have in such operations, however.
Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/trump-on-his-way-to-becoming-largest-weapons-dealer-in-world-history/
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