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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
This sort of thing falls under purchasing agreements when you buy US weaponry. So - because they pay for it. And we sell them advanced weaponry despite their questionable record because they're one of our most important client states in the middle east, and one that doesn't strictly need us so we have to fondle their balls a bit more.
This is standard geopolitics tbh 🤷♂️
This is standard geopolitics tbh 🤷♂️
RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M
@QuixoticSoul The Saudi-led coalition is responsible for 4,800 of about 7,000 civilian deaths caused by direct military targeting in the war since 2016, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, which monitors the toll.
And US military advisers have been posted to the coalition air command center in Riyadh since at least 2016. Yet civilian deaths continue.
So why , in light of these figures , is the US still training Saudi air force officers to commit what amounts to genocide (even after Congress withdrew US support for the war)?
And US military advisers have been posted to the coalition air command center in Riyadh since at least 2016. Yet civilian deaths continue.
So why , in light of these figures , is the US still training Saudi air force officers to commit what amounts to genocide (even after Congress withdrew US support for the war)?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@RodionRomanovitch Geopolitics. This is how the game is played. If not us, the Russians will be happy to do it.
Some of that is also the simple reality of bombing shit.
Some of that is also the simple reality of bombing shit.