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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 7, 2017
Well, this is interesting.
Bruce Riedel, former CIA analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution wrote Monday:
I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.
None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.
An example is a proposal for sale of four frigates (called multi-mission surface combatant vessels) to the Royal Saudi navy. This proposal was first reported by the State Department in 2015. No contract has followed. The type of frigate is a derivative of a vessel that the U.S. Navy uses but the derivative doesn’t actually exist yet. Another piece is the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense system (THAAD) which was recently deployed in South Korea. The Saudis have expressed interest in the system for several years but no contracts have been finalized. Obama approved the sale in principle at a summit at Camp David in 2015. Also on the wish list are 150 Black Hawk helicopters. Again, this is old news repackaged. What the Saudis and the administration did is put together a notional package of the Saudi wish list of possible deals and portray that as a deal. Even then the numbers don’t add up. It’s fake news.
Moreover, it’s unlikely that the Saudis could pay for a $110 billion deal any longer, due to low oil prices and the two-plus years old war in Yemen. President Obama sold the kingdom $112 billion in weapons over eight years, most of which was a single, huge deal in 2012 negotiated by then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates. To get that deal through Congressional approval, Gates also negotiated a deal with Israel to compensate the Israelis and preserve their qualitative edge over their Arab neighbors. With the fall in oil prices, the Saudis have struggled to meet their payments since.
You will know the Trump deal is real when Israel begins to ask for a package to keep the Israeli Defense Forces’ qualitative edge preserved.
Just so you understand, this is not some random jerk-off talking here. This is a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, which is a very serious think-tank.
Certainly explains why Toby went along with this…
I would just assume that this is all exactly true, that he has analyzed the documents and they don’t actually amount to any type of “deal,” but that the media is portraying it that way. The Saudis also apparently believe that is what it is, which is why they just put a noose around Qatar and attacked the Iranian parliament.
According to the Pentagon’s public materials reviewed by Sputnik, there is no pending deal or combination of agreements adding up to $110 billion between the US and Saudi Arabia.
Trump’s proposed sale of the THAAD missile defense system to Riyadh was actually something former President Barack Obama agreed to “in principle” back in 2015. The supposed sale of a fleet of 150 Black Hawk choppers is also “old news repackaged,” Riedal said. The Saudis have communicated interest in these purchases in recent years, but nothing has come of it. That’s still true today, according to Riedal.
Further, the four “multi-mission surface combat vessels” included in the supposed deal to boost Saudi Arabia’s naval capabilities are an international export version of a current US frigate. At this stage, the only thing Washington could export to Riyadh would be the ship’s blueprints, because the actual ships don’t exist yet, Riedal continued.
Lastly, the expert contended that depressed oil prices, in tandem with the financial drain of funding the Yemen war, render it “unlikely” Riyadh has the cash for any such deal.
Citing the White House, however, were Reuters, which described the arrangement as “sealed,” and CNBC, which said the agreement was “worth $350 billion over ten years and $110 billion that will take effect immediately.” Other outlets followed suit, and Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon have publicly claimed that they would stand to benefit from the potentially lucrative deal or series of deals.
The Pentagon’s arms exporting agency maintains that the $110 billion sale is “intended,” meaning the exchange has yet to go through the many rigors of finalizing the transfer of weapons from the US to foreign nations.
First, Congress must receive notice of the intended sale. Next, lawmakers have 30 days to allow the deal to go through; promises from the State Department, Defense Department and the White House to sell weapons can be halted by Congress. According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Congress has to pass a bill “expressing its will on the sale” and be able to secure enough votes to beat a potential presidential veto in order to block arms sales.
In addition, lawmakers remain “free to pass legislation to block or modify an arms sale at any time up to the point of delivery of the items involved.”
On Monday, DSCA delivered notices to Congress of the Trump administration’s intended sales of radar systems. But the deal amounted to a miniscule fraction of the widely publicized $110 billion deal.
There are currently three proposed sales to the Kingdom that have been sent to Congress, worth a total of $1.6 billion. A majority of that, $1 billion, is only for services, not high-tech weaponry or THAAD missile defense systems, contrary to media reports.
The DSCA announced on June 5 that the “sale” of $662 million worth of radar equipment to Riyadh is a “notice of a potential sale required by law and does not mean the sale has been concluded.”
On June 2, DSCA delivered a notification to Congress of a proposed $750 million sale of services to the Royal Saudi Air Force. But that doesn’t include any weapons or missiles. Instead, the blanket order training program ordered by Riyadh “includes, but is not limited to, flight training, professional military education, specialized training, mobile training teams, and English language training,” according to DSCA.
The only other recent item included on DCSA’s list of Major Arms Sales is from May 23, when a training program requested for Saudi Arabia’s navy. The estimated value of the deal is $250 million.
But if there actually is no deal with the US, and the appearance of the deal was set up in order to embolden Saudi Arabia to do something so absolutely insane as attack the Iranian Parliament…
Then…
Then…
Well…
