In the case of the Saudis its both, most of their population(like 97%) just have public jobs and have little interest in private sector jobs. They're completely dependent on foreigners for any sort of productive work, from the lowest level(South Asian laborers) to the highest and most skilled(Western technicians). Immigrants took all their jobs but the citizens are okay with it because they have cushy state jobs, compete with benefits and stuff and of course foreigners need a native sponsor so they rent out their signatures for even more money.
Why do you think it makes sense for Trump to get a pass for things that other presidents didn't get a pass for?
It's not the same though. Read the article I posted today.
But he's not, he's actively relaxing the controls that make it harder for regimes that abuse human rights to get their hands on weapons.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-to-expand-weapons-exports-idUSKBN1HO2PT?il=0Trumps personal connection to it?
The art of the deal?? lol...or something.....
Bush & Obama caught a lot of criticism for arming Israel and the Saudis, for instance.
Holy piss.. Damn. I honestly did not know that.. They literally farmed out all of their private sector work? So you are right. They literally have little to no capacity for it.. But what about some place like say, Egypt or Liberia or some such, are they in a similar boat?
What I was trying to say is, I am tired of watching the US spend its money to be the effective defense of so many nations when they can and should be doing it their damn selves. That's a whole hell of a lot of money that would be better spent in the US on social programs..
Egypt is a more normal country but I doubt they can match our arms production, both in quantity or quality. There's a reason they come to us. Part of it is we sweeten the deal with military aid so the money we give them is basically a gift card to be spent on our hardware so our companies can keep jobs and pumping out stuff. But its also because we're good at it.
I think I am underestimating how long it would take, but I do think eventually the gap would be made up. Its all about supply vs demand. Now weather or not the quality ever catches up, that I am doubtful over.
They deny it but there are reports that one of their high tech arms has made it over there along with training. They also trained Colombian Sicarios back in the heyday of the Medellin cartel.
Not to mention the fact that they are not so secretly bombing Syria.. Lord help us if they catch Russians in the process. What is it with Jewish people and pissing everyone off for the last 4000 years?
