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If you think this is shocking, wait until you dig into the history of US and UK weapons sales (and ongoing highly paid contractor support) to the Saudi military
by walrus01 4y ago
If you think this is shocking, wait until you dig into the history of US and UK weapons sales (and ongoing highly paid contractor support) to the Saudi military and "police" forces.
Software licensing bribery and kickbacks are peanuts and crumbs on the floor by comparison.
A great deal of it is justified under the concept that because they're definitely not on good terms with the mullahs in Qom, anyone opposed to the Iranian ayatollahs as a regional power must be our friend, right?
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoIf you think this is shocking, wait until you dig into the history of the EU countries selling arms and anti-protest gear to Russia despite the embargo that was put in place in 2014.
- walrus01 4y agoCan you provide some specifics?
- LudwigNagasena 4y agohttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-closes-loophole-allowing-multimillion-euro-arms-sales-russia-2022-04-14/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-closes-loophole-allo...
- GuardianCaveman 4y agoI worked on a program for a foreign military sale to a Middle East country and learned a lot like every foreign company had to pay someone to get ahead at all. It’s crazy to me this is news. It’s literally impossible to do business there without bribes. The USAF didn’t knoww and we had to work hard to hide the money used for that purpose. We lost part of a lucrative contract because of a rival defense company bribing a different prince.
- shapefrog 4y ago> the history You dont need to go beyond yesterday for history. The foreign aid budget for example is litteral bribery with a less icky name.
- HopenHeyHi 4y ago[flagged]