tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post417953965620733458..comments2024-03-29T09:32:34.853-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Whitney Webb - ANGERED BY SAUDI PLAN TO PURCHASE RUSSIAN S-400, TRUMP ADMIN EXPLOITING KHASHOGGI DISAPPEARANCE TO FORCE SAUDIS TO “BUY AMERICAN”mike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-33886301641277363732018-10-21T20:29:51.140-04:002018-10-21T20:29:51.140-04:00US foreign policy is dictated by arms sales.
Eise...US foreign policy is dictated by arms sales.<br /><br />Eisenhower nailed it in 1961. It's only gotten worse since then.Noah Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12012500819097539976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-31322225653350003052018-10-21T11:04:44.753-04:002018-10-21T11:04:44.753-04:00“However, there is considerable evidence pointing ...<i> “However, there is considerable evidence pointing to the fact that the U.S.’ response to the Khashoggi affair is likely to be determined, not by any Saudi government responsibility for Khashoggi’s fate, but instead whether or not the Saudis choose to follow through with their promise to purchase the $15 billion U.S.-made THAAD missile system or its cheaper, Russia-made equivalent, the S-400.”</i><br /><br />Equivalent? Do you see the nonsense involved? The confusion? The (useless) THAAD system supposedly defends against ballistic <b><i> missiles,</i></b> whereas the (powerful) Russian S-400 defends against <b><i>aircraft.</i></b> That's a huge difference. ICBM ballistic missile warheads travel at 16,000 mph. Good luck intercepting them.<br /><br />The Saudis are idiots. Much of their relationship with the USA hinges on the Saudis’ willingness to keep spending billions on U.S. weapons. Likewise, much of the U.S. rhetoric against Iran hinges on convincing the Saudis to keep wasting their money on U.S. weapons. The Saudis also fund many of the Western Empire’s mercenary head-choppers in Syria and elsewhere. <br /><br />The Saudis have a lot of oil, but culturally they are the most primitive, backward, and stupid of all Arab cultures. They are murderous rag-heads and camel humpers.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-6513831392342227422018-10-21T10:43:08.249-04:002018-10-21T10:43:08.249-04:00“But why are the Saudi's holding back on purch...<i> “But why are the Saudi's holding back on purchasing the THAAD system?”</i><br /><br />Because anti-ballistic missile systems don’t work. None of them. Mankind does not have the technology to hit a bullet with a bullet. <br /><br />Anti-<b>aircraft</b> systems work, like the Russian S-200, S-300 and S-400 systems. However anti-ballistic missile systems are a trillion-dollar fraud. All “successful” tests of them are faked. All the numbers are fudged. <br /><br />Raytheon’s “Patriot” missile, Lockheed Martin’s Aegis system, Boeing’s “Ground-Based Interceptors,” and the Israel’s “Iron Dome” farce are all hoaxes. The entire U.S. Missile Defense Agency is based on a trillion-dollar lie. MIT physicist Theodore Postol is correct.<br /><br />My statements are extreme, and I will not flesh them out here in this limited space unless someone challenges me. Suffice it to say that foreign governments don’t buy these systems because foreign governments know they’re useless. The Israelis have not been able to sell their “Iron Dome” nonsense to anyone outside Israel. (And believe me they have tried.)<br /><br />Not a single Iraqi Scud missile was successfully intercepted during the “Gulf War” [Aug 1990 – Feb 1991]. The Patriot missile system proved useless there, and it has proved useless in Saudi Arabia against missiles fired from Yemen. The Saudi government tells lies in service to Raytheon, but it’s all lies. <br /><br /><i>”The Saudis claimed seven of the Patriots struck their targets.”</i> <br /><br />Lies.<br /><br /><i> “As recently as 2010, the US Missile Defense Agency claimed it had improved the Patriot.”</i> <br /><br />Lies. The Missile Defense Agency wants to maintain its hoax, and its flow of limitless federal dollars.<br /><br />To repeat, anti-aircraft systems work, and offensive ballistic missiles work, but ballistic missile defense systems do <b>not</b> work. They are an ultra-expensive sham. <br /><br />This b.s. has continued since US President Reagan began his "Star Wars" nonsense on 23 March 1983.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.com