Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

[Thread] Searching through 1000s of Defense Dept docs, I found that the US has sold over $28.3 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 since their attack on Yemen 🇾🇪 began. This includes 20 deals inked by the Biden admin.

My new @Mintpressnews investigation:

mintpressnews.com/despite-pledge…

In addition to the $28.3 billion, Saudi Arabia is also a named customer in $34 billion worth of additional deals with multiple recipients, meaning the upper bound for US ➡️ Saudi weapons sales could be as high as $63 billion since 2015.

Although Biden has cut back on the bonanza, he has still ok'd similar amounts as Trump did 2017-8, including orders for Black Hawk and Apache helicopters as well as cruise missiles and other bombs.

This, despite promising the US would end its involvement in the conflict.

(The 2021 figures do not include the recent $650 million arms deal which has not yet been completed.)

commondreams.org/news/2021/11/1…

The biggest profiteers from the destruction have been Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon who have all made billions in sales to Saudi Arabia, plus much more to other members of the Saudi-led coalition.

If you do the maths, that works out at around $50k in sales per dead Yemeni.

The Saudis pay in dollars. The Yemenis pay in blood.

mintpressnews.com/despite-pledge…