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The New York Times reports (and Yahoo! News repeats without any paywall) that the government of Saudi Arabia is threatening to sell $750 billion in treasury securities and other unidentified assets if Congress passes the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The bill would allow foreign governments to be sued by 9/11 victims and their families. The threat was issued by Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir to unnamed US lawmakers while he was visiting Washington sometime last month, on the grounds that these assets could be in danger of being frozen by US courts.
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Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sell $750 Billion in US Assets If 9/11 Bill Passes
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Gravis on Sunday April 17 2016, @03:23AM
apparently you don't know about our politicians.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Sunday April 17 2016, @10:14AM
This is why we really should give credit to the USSR. If you look at the weapons they sold to the third world? they were ALWAYS the "M" models..know what they called the M models? Monkey models, as in "we don't trust these monkeys with the good stuff". For an example the "T-72" they were sold was the T-72M, which didn't have a targeting computer, no ATGM capability, and they swapped out the night vision for an early 60s T-54 setup.
Compare this to the USA which ever since Reagan (to Carter's credit he only sold the F-5, which was a more primitive fighter built just for the third world) has sold our latest weapon tech to plenty of dictatorships that later turned hostile. Of course that is how the MIC two step shuffle is played, 1.- Sell the latest tech to a dodgy country, 2.- When they turn hostile say "They have the latest tech! That is why you need to buy our SUX 7000 super duper weapon package!" lather rinse repeat. After all if we would have followed the Soviet example all we would be facing is cold war era crap from both sides...can't have that now can we?
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 18 2016, @11:30AM
In the digital age, any enemy would be brave/foolish to go up against the manufacturer of their weapons with their own weapons - how easy is it to install a "cheat code"?
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday April 18 2016, @12:15PM
Except our "digital tech" is such crap our "cheat code" would most likely blow our own shit up while unlocking theirs! I have a buddy that works on military tech (he doesn't have time to deal with his relatives so he sends them to me, along with doing all their home theater work) and its really sad, we're talking DIP switches and code that makes Win 95 look like cutting edge tech.
This is again something we should have learned about from the USSR as you look at their "M" models and its impossible to turn them into the legit versions without replacing so many critical systems you would be better off just buying a legit version. If you want to see just how bad they gimped the tech they sold to the dodgy regimes (as well as how stupid one of those regimes were) look up "Failed Tanks:Asad Babil". If we would have taken a similar stance the most advanced planes Iran would have had was the F-105 Thunderchief and the most advanced anti-air we would have given Osama would have been the Redeye missile from the early 60s.
The only "positive" I can say is if we sell them our cutting edge tech? the code is so fucking buggy it'll be more likely to break than work in the heat of battle...but the same is true of our versions, see the record of the Phalanx CIWS for how bad our software is.
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