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Donald Trump signs $142bn defence sales agreement with Saudi Arabia during visit (www.middleeasteye.net)
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US President Donald Trump signed a $142bn defense sales agreement in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as he continued to push the kingdom to pour a trillion dollars of investment into his country.

Trump, who was treated to an escort of several Saudi F-15 fighter jets upon his arrival, had been pushing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to up a previously promised $600bn investment to an eye-watering $1 trillion.

The new arms deal, which includes exports of GE gas turbines and energy solutions totaling $14.2bn and Boeing 737-8 passenger aircraft totaling $4.8bn, goes some way towards fulfilling that aim.

One Saudi Arabian company also plans on to invest $20bn in AI-related sites in the United States, the White House said on Tuesday.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's probably just letting the Saudi Sheikh use all that equipment for his birthday military parade.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Arming the Saudis. What's the worst that could happen?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Theyve been doing this for decades. They're likely going to try and bomb, again, Yemen only to find out why they had to stop doing it in the first place.

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Hey friends! I need your help. Can you tell me why the US would want to sell more weapons to the Saudis?

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"That's right! Very good! They probably want Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen in hope that this would prevent Yemen from supporting the Palestinian resistance!"

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Saudi Arabia gonna fuck around and find out why they had to stop bombing Yemen, again.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That moment when you sign a "peace agreement" with Yemen, only to arm the Saudis a week later. This pretty much breaks whatever agreement they had, let's hope they blow up Aramco facilities again.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

They are buying for like 2 billion in Reaper drones. The ones which Ansarallah is swatting out of the sky like flies these days. Great investment.