The United States is on the brink of closing a very big weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. One of the biggest contracts ever assembled. This contract is worth over $60B. Does anyone else find this weird? Is it just about money seeing this is one of US greatest exports? Or is there a hidden agenda? Let me know what you think!
Money has always been a great motivator for man and of course, the US is famed for it's weaponry production - perhaps there is something more to this though... We shall have to wait and see if Wikileaks gets hold of any documents or if somebody 'spills the beans' as it were. Saudi Arabia is a strange choice of country to do a weapons deal with - especially on such a large scale.
Closing a contract meaning it's "coming to a close", or closing as in "it's about to begin"?
Saudis gots oil. Amurica gots guns.
Federally, they have been trying to keep it under wraps, but word leaked somehow. Knowing them, they probably are keeping tabs on the shipments anyways.
I don't know why everyone is so surprised. Suadi Arabia and the US have been staunch allies since the Gulf War. The US backs an elitist autocratic monarchy which has more money than sense, and in return receives a hell of a lot of oil.
The fact is, the Saudis have run out of shiny things to buy. One of the few things they don't have is a large military, or at least one with expensive hardware.
We Brits just recently sold them a bunch of Eurofighters and now because of the recession will probably have to flog our warships to them too.
Not a hidden agenda at all. The US has a long history of exporting high-tech military hardware to her allies, and Saudi in particular. It's just business as usual, it's just one of the first time you kids have heard about it.
