BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON IT'S THE JOB OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
TO SET UP EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE ARMS DEALS WITH FOREIGN
COUNTRIES, I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT IT IS, WHETHER DEMOCRAT OR
REPUBLICAN THEY GO AROUND THE WORLD TRYING TO SET UP THESE
DEALS TO SHIP ARMS AROUND THE WORLD, THE WHITE HOUSE RECENTLY
HAD SAUDI OFFICIALS OVER TO DISCUSS A POSSIBLE DEAL AND
SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENED.
THIS IS JARED KUSHNER, HEAD OF
INTERNATIONAL ARMS SALES, INCLUDED EVERYTHING ELSE, AND
THE SAUDIS --
THIS IS THE SAME RADAR SYSTEM, BY THE WAY, THAT
RECEIVED SO MUCH DISCUSSION ABOUT ITS APPOINTMENT IN SOUTH
KOREA RECENTLY TO HELP COUNTER THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF
BALLISTIC MISSILES FROM NORTH KOREA.
THE FAD SYSTEM, IT'S
CALLED.
SO --
THE EARLY WORD IS THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET SOME SORT OF
DEAL.
I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DETAILS OF IT.
I MEAN, HE LOVES
TO MAKE DEALS, THAT'S WHAT TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES DO -- BUT TO ARM
THE SAUDIS, HOW MUCH EFFORT THEY ARE GOING INTO.
THE PERSONAL CAPITAL THEY ARE WILLING TO EXPAND.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
ESPECIALLY SINCE TRUMP HAS BEEN CRITICAL OF SAUDI ARABIA.
IT'S A LINE HE GOES TO.
MAYBE HE KNOWS IT WORKS WITH HIS BASE.
THEY ARE LIKE, OH, THE
FUCKING SAUDIS -- DON'T WORRY, WE WILL GET YOU YOUR ARMS.
IT IS A PUBLIC AND A PRIVATE POSITION.
HE'S TRYING TO GET THEM DEALS.
HE CRITICIZED THEM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN, YOU ARE RIGHT.
BUT
THE JARED CLUSTER THING IS WEIRD, THE PERSONAL DEALMAKING
-- IF IT HAPPENS NORMALLY WE DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT NORMALLY, SO
IT'S WEIRD, BUT THIS REALLY ISN'T ALL THAT BIZARRE,
HISTORICALLY, FOR THE U.S. WE WANTED TO PUT THIS DEAL IN
CONTEXT, THERE ARE A LOT OF DEALS ABOUT HOW SOME OF THE
WEAPONS WERE ALREADY NEGOTIATED UNDER FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA, SO
WE BROUGHT UP HOW MUCH WE SELL TO SAUDI ARABIA YEAR-BY-YEAR.
LET'S BRING UP THIS CHART -- ARE BILLIONS ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE,
IT GOES BACK A LONG TIME.
THERE HAVE BEEN PREVIOUS PERIODS WHERE
MULTIPLE YEARS IN A ROW WE SOLD MORE GENERALLY, BUT LOOK AT THAT
SPIKE UNDER OBAMA BACK IN 2012, A HUGE AMOUNT OF ARMS BEING SOLD
TO SAUDI ARABIA SPECIFICALLY IN JUST ONE YEAR.
THE AVERAGE IS
GOING TO SHOOT UP UNDER TRUMP, THAT IS TRUE, BUT MAN, WE'VE
BEEN SELLING THEM ARMS FOR A LONG TIME.
HASN'T BROUGHT US
SECURITY?
I DON'T KNOW.
THERE IS A LOT OF TROUBLE COMING OUT OF
THAT REGION AND OUT OF SAUDI ARABIA SPECIFICALLY, A LOT OF
THOSE ARMS SALES CAME BEFORE 9/11, ODDLY ENOUGH, SO IT LOOKS
LIKE INTO THE FUTURE WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO IT.
THE SAME
POLICY, REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, DOESN'T MATTER.
BUT AS WE DO IT THEY WILL STILL SAY IT'S A NEW WAY TO
BRING SOME SORT OF SECURITY AT OUR FOOTHOLD IN THE MIDDLE EAST
AND HAVE SOME ALLIES, PEACE, STABILITY, A NEW WAVE --
IT'S THE SAME WAY IF.
SO WHY DO BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, IT DOESN'T MATTER,
TRUMP WILL DO IT, WHY DO THEY DO IT?
I GUESS TO SOME EXTENT IT'S TO MAKE SURE THE REGIME IS AS
POSITIVE TOWARDS US AS POSSIBLE, MAYBE THIS WILL LIMIT THEIR
FUNDING FOR TERRORISM AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
WE LIKE THEM MORE
THAN WE LIKE SOME OTHER POTENTIAL ALLIES OR ADVERSARIES
IN THE REGION, I GUESS THEY WOULD SAY.
BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT
A LOT OF THESE WEAPONS WILL IMMEDIATELY BE USED IN YEMEN.
I
KNOW IRAN IS WORRIED ABOUT THIS, THEORETICALLY THESE WEAPONS
COULD BE USED ON THEM.
ISRAEL IS A FAN OF SOME OF THESE WEAPONS
BEING SOLD BECAUSE IT'S AN EXTRA BUFFER AGAINST IRAN, BUT THEY
DON'T NECESSARILY WANT -- ESPECIALLY THE RADAR SYSTEM, THE
ABILITY TO SHOOT DOWN BALLISTIC MISSILES, THEORETICALLY THEY
COULD COME WHEN THAT CUTS A SIGNIFICANT ABILITY OF OUR
ABILITY TO COUNTER SAUDI ARABIA.
LOOK, WE ARMED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN
IRAQ FOR YEARS AND YEARS, AND THEN EVENTUALLY WENT TO WAR WITH
HIM. AND I GUESS WE MAKE MONEY COMING AND GOING IN THAT CASE, I
GUESS THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN HERE, BUT TO THE AVERAGE
AMERICAN THIS CHART DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
I THINK IT'S BECAUSE OF THE PETRODOLLAR, WHICH IS WHY WE'VE
BEEN OVERTHROWING DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENTS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST AND BACKING STRONG-ARMED THEOCRACIES LIKE
THIS, BECAUSE THE CIA DOES NOT LIKE DEMOCRACIES, BECAUSE THEY
ARE MESSY, AND SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE VOTE TO KEEP THEIR
NATURAL RESOURCES.
SOMETIMES
THEY VOTE AND WORK TOWARD THEIR OWN BENEFIT, WHICH IS WEIRD.
SO WE HAVE TO GO DO THINGS LIKE IN HAITI, THE BANANA WARS,
IRAN, WE GOT RID OF THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTED PRESIDENT AND
INSTALLED THE SHAH, APARTMENT, THAT'S HOW WE GOT A THEOCRACY.
THAT WAS THE PUSH BACK TO US GETTING RID OF DEMOCRACY THERE.
AND JOHN KERRY TESTIFIED, I THINK IN 2015, I'M NOT SURE, HE
WAS TRYING TO IMPRESS UPON THE SENATE THAT SAUDI ARABIA WAS
COMMITTED TO TRYING TO OVERTHROW BASHIR [SIC] IN SYRIA, THAT HE
SAID THEY OFFERED TO PAY FOR THE ENTIRE MILITARY OPERATION IF WE
DID IT.
SO WE OFFERED TO LEND OUR MILITARY TO SAUDI ARABIA AS
LONG AS THEY CONTINUED TO MONETIZE OIL ON THE PETRODOLLAR,
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
THAT'S WHY WE ARE IN SYRIA.
IT'S
GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH WANTING TO HELP PEOPLE, IF WE WANTED TO
HELP PEOPLE WE WOULD STOP SELLING CLUSTER BOMBS TO SAUDI
ARABIA THAT THEY DROP ON FISHING VILLAGES IN YEMEN.
SO THE IDEA
THAT WE ARE TRYING TO STOP ASSAD BECAUSE HE'S BAD IS BULLSHIT.
YOU ARE SAYING IT'S NOT ABOUT BEAUTIFUL BABIES?
IT'S ALL ABOUT PETRODOLLARS, THAT THE ONLY REASON WE ARE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
YOU ARE SAYING OUR MILITARY ISN'T HERE TO PROTECT US?
WOW.
GET OFF THE SET.
IF THEY HAD DONE THAT DEAL -- TO SOME
EXTENDED -- FOR LET'S SAY WE INVADED SYRIA AND THEY PAID US
FOR IT, DOES THAT HELP OUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN?
NO, BUT THE
MILITARY CONTRACTORS, THEY DON'T CARE WHAT THE OBJECTIVE IS.
IT'S
NOT LIKE WE ONLY GET PAID IF THE BOMB IS DROPPED ON SOMEONE TRULY
HORRIBLE.
NO, THEY GET PAID EITHER WAY.
HOW MANY BILLIONS
UPON BILLIONS -- YOU JUST FLOOD THEM WITH CASH, DECADE AFTER
DECADE, AND ENDLESS HUNGER, KILLING THE REST OF US.
26,000 BOMBS IN SYRIA IN THE LAST YEAR.
I WANT TO GIVE MINIMAL CREDIT TO OBAMA IN THIS AREA AFTER
CRITICIZING HIM.
ONE AREA WHERE THEY WEREN'T GOING TO HELP OUT
SAUDI ARABIA IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUT A HOLD ON
PRECISION GUIDED MUNITIONS IT HAD AGREED TO SELL THE SAUDIS
PREVIOUSLY OUT OF FEAR THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN USED TO BOMB
CIVILIANS IN YEMEN.
WHICH THEY WOULD HAVE, WE KNOW THAT.
THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS FREED UP THOSE WEAPONS.
I GUESS IF YOU
ARE A FISHERMAN IN YEMEN, MAYBE YOU PREFER THE PRECISION GUIDED
BOMBS TO THE CLUSTER BOMBS BECAUSE THERE IS SLIGHTLY LESS
CHANCE THEY WILL SIT THERE FOR WEEKS OR MONTHS OR YEARS AND
BLOW UP AND KILL A KID -- THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WITH CLUSTER BOMBS
-- BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE BARS ARE GONE, SAUDI ARABIA CAN DO
WHATEVER THEY WANT, THERE WILL BE NO LEADERSHIP FROM AMERICA
FOR EVEN MINIMAL CONCERN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, EVEN IF THAT'S
SORT OF THE SKIN ON US ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF MILITARY
CONTRACTORS, ITS DISASTROUS.
IT IS, AND IT'S WEIRD THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS AFTER A
STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH MR.
OBAMA -- THEY HAD A STRAINED
RELATIONSHIP?
HE SOLD THEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FUCKING
ARMS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW STRAINED THAT IS.
IS GOING ON NOW, AS WE PREVIOUSLY SAID TRUMP WILL
BE IN SAUDI ARABIA, WE WILL SEE IF THAT CHANGES THIS DEAL,
IF ANY ADDITIONAL WEAPONS SYSTEMS ARE GIVEN TO THEM,
BUT THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON NOW.
HIS BASE IS PRETTY NONINTERVENTIONIST, BEING TRUMP,
I'M NOT TALKING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, I'M TALKING TRUMP'S
REPUBLICAN BASE, SO EVERY TIME HE DOES SOMETHING
INTERVENTIONIST THEY GET PISSED OFF AT HIM.
I AGREE THEY WERE, THEY LIKE THE AMERICA FIRST TALK, BUT THEY
ALSO BOW DOWN TO AUTHORITY.
THEIR OPINION OF TRUMP DOESN'T
SEEM TO BE DEPENDENT ON WHAT HE SAYS OR DOES, AND IF HE REVERSES
ON THIS AND START TO GET MORE INVOLVED, THEY CAN CLOAK IT AS,
HEY, HE IS KILLING MUSLIMS.
WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT FANS OF THEM.
WHO IS THE TRUMP NONINTERVENTIONIST BASE?
ARE
THESE PEOPLE WITH NAMES WE KNOW, OR JUST RANDOM PEOPLE AT HIS
RALLIES?
THOSE RANDOM PEOPLE AT THE RALLY STUDENT READ THAT
ARTICLE, BECAUSE FIRST OFF IT SAYS NEW YORK TIMES -- NUMBER
TWO, IT'S 2 1/2 PAGES LONG, AND AFTER THAT THEY PROBABLY DON'T
UNDERSTAND, OR IF YOU LOOKED INTO IT THEY WOULD READ MAYBE TO
THE FIFTH OR SIXTH PARAGRAPH WHERE IT SAID THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION DID THE SAME THING AT A HIGH SCALE, THEN
THERE IS THIS, DOES NOT COMPUTE, I THOUGHT WE HATED EVERYTHING
OBAMA DID.
REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS NEVER SAID LOOK AT ALL
THESE ARMS HE IS SELLING, BECAUSE THEY LIKE THAT.
NOW IT
IS, LOOK AT THIS NEW WAVE OF SELLING ARMS TO OUR ALLIES
TO MAKE SURE HORRIBLE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN TO THIS REGION.
IN HAVING JARED KUSHNER BE THE PERSON TO NEGOTIATE IT, IT
PROVIDED AN OUT FOR THE CONSPIRACY THEORY INFOWARS
SECTOR.
BECAUSE THE IDEA THAT AMERICA FIRST TRUMP WILL SELL
WEAPONS TO SAUDI ARABIA, THEY HATE SAUDI ARABIA -- OH, BUT
THEY SENT THE JEWISH GUY TO DO IT.
JEWISH ELITES IS ALWAYS THE OUT FOR THEM.
I THOUGHT HE WAS THE GOOD ONE IN THEIR EYES.
NO, THEY HATE HIM.
IN THE PAST, WHEN TRUMP REVERSES
POSITION ON WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO, THE CONSPIRACY
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY THIS IS THE GODDAMN JEWS IN THE
ADMINISTRATION MAKING HIM DOING THAT.
THEY HAVE SPECIFICALLY
ATTACKED THE "EFFEMINATE" JARED KUSHNER.
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