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Because Latin American countries like a good religious war. Note the coalition of the drilling includes some odd Latin dance partners
Brazil provides cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia because they are banned in most nations. medium.com/@jnascim/how-b…
70% of the weapons used in Yemen against the various groups come from the U.S.
US arms exports to the Middle East grew by 29 per cent between 2009–13 and 2014–18, and the US share of total global exports rose from 30 per cent to 36 per cent. sipri.org/media/press-re…
US arms exports to the Middle East grew by 29 per cent between 2009–13 and 2014–18, and the US share of total global exports rose from 30 per cent to 36 per cent. sipri.org/media/press-re…
We used to have this thing about pushing weapons into repressive dictatorships like Iran, Iraq, Libya, etc because they tend up to end up in the wrong hands. We didn't seem to learn from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan or other nations we end up warring in. nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/…
Mix arms saturation with hiring and training of groups like the Janjaweed and you have an ideal blowback scenario. theamericanconservative.com/articles/saudi…
