Why is Trump rewarding Saudi war crimes with more weapons? | TheHill

Maybe it's Trump maybe not so much. $110 billion in weapons sound like a very big deal and it is.  But, funny how there is always a back story left out for convenience.  Just last September Obama pledged 115 billion in weapons and then they bombed a funeral and things got difficult to justify.   So in the end he also denied them 40 million in weapon at that time (a drop in the bucket) and slowed down the weapons pipeline.  So Trump's offer isn't news.  It isn't even bigger.  It's really just a continuation of US policy.  But you can't see that context here can you?


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It is hard for me to jump on this bandwagon that suggest that Trump is sending the wrong message. I believe that the Saudis together with the US are two poles of an evil empire and should be shunned by the international community and perhaps bank accounts frozen and all that....it is that bad.  The US has been complicit the whole way of course and will never give up this relationship.  If Saudi funding of the attack on the World Trade Center didn't do it, go figure what the hell could.