Bloomberg Discovers War Profiteering Is Good Business
The Bloomberg article, "Trump’s Green Light of Saudi F-35s for MBS Is Only the Beginning," excitedly reports on the potential sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia, framing it as a geopolitical chess move. What it conveniently sidesteps is the Kingdom's well-documented use of US-supplied weapons in Yemen, contributing to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The US-Saudi arms trade has fueled
Saudi Arabia's involvement in Yemen's civil war since 2015, resulting in massive civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have extensively documented these abuses, implicating US-made weapons. One might wonder if the 'strategic gains' outweigh the 'collateral damage'—(a polite term for dead children, apparently). This is less about 'beginning' a
new era and more about continuing a very profitable one for the defense industry, which sees Middle Eastern conflicts as an open market. The only thing truly 'beginning' is likely another wave of lucrative contracts for Lockheed Martin and the accompanying 'stabilization' rhetoric.