11-10-2020, 01:59 PM
(11-10-2020, 01:43 PM)Rootilda Wrote:(11-10-2020, 02:31 AM)BigMark Wrote: Gifting?
Sorry for confusing you, I meant allowing them to have/buy/acquire these items at all.
A little story... the place I worked as a fed employee was on a military depot repair base and the particular job I had was located in a building that worked on various weapon systems. We got a lot of FMS contracts (foreign military sales) and one of them was for argon gas bottles that are used to cool missiles. One of our steady customers was Pakistan but we had other middle eastern countries that we weren't exactly on good terms with. It seemed counterproductive for us to be supplying them parts for missiles but I was just a small cog in a very large machine so what the fuck did I know.
Same thing here. Yeah, Trump has declared peace in the middle east but supplying fighter jets and other weapons of war seems counter intuitive knowing how incendiary that region is and has always been.
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What you describe goes on irrespective of which party controls the executive branch. It's what Eisenhower warned us about as he was walking out the door. Kennedy also tried to warn us. He was murdered by Johnson, Dulles, and the like. Biden doesn't represent a departure from that practice, any more than Trump has, so why make hay about it?