Posted on 05/06/2024 6:04:57 AM PDT by SJackson
NOT THE BEE
Media this morning reporting voting coming up.. Percentage, Biden close to Trump
Anyone voting for a dementia patient for president, should be tested or do not vote.
Do that many who live here, in the United States have no care for my country!
“Nuclear capability is a threat for generations.”
Uhhh, Nukes require maintenance. FACT.
I’m personally unsure about length of shelf life.
Great song!
Bribery’s part of the Arab business culture.
It’s one of the reasons they resent American politicians pretending they’re receiving $500,000 for a 40 minutes ‘speech’ when in fact it’s a bribe - and to add insult to injury Arab hosts have to hire people to sit in a room to ‘hear the speech’.
My point: Arabs understand dirty Americans like Biden... and sellouts like the people who run our Universities... the last question is did they also ‘buy’ our intelligence services and offer up dead Jews as a bonus part of the deal?
Lock Biden up if this report is true!
Its my understanding that the Saudis funded the Pakistani nuke program from the start. They can get their hands on a half dozen functional weapons any time they want.
They have no need to start a program from scratch. They just need to pick up the phone and place an order.
Since Barry and Valerie have heretofore leaned heavily in favor of Iran (Shia) it doesn’t make a lot of sense that they’d hand nukes to the Sunnis in Saudi.
I usually put a lot of credence in what Daniel reports, but this time.........
Bkmrk
I am not going to belive one word of this without indepentent confirmation.
Well, if this wasn’t all confusing before this rambling article has certainly made it so.
Hi.
Brandon is trying to get us all killed.
5.56mm
The biggest disinformation about the posted report is the title. It’s as if the Saudis were either terrorists or would let terrorists have nukes the Saudis might later develop after they get nuclear technology from the U.S. Yet where is the support for that characteization?
While this kind of deal - the Saudis getting U.S. help with nuclear technology - has appealed to the Biden admin, it is not a wholley new idea from the American side in general. It was constantly a wait and see issue, depending on the ability to restrain the nuclear ambitions of the Mullahs in Tehran. The diplomatic ability for that seems at this time to have run its couse without success and is presented with current thinking the Mullahs are closer than ever with their nuclear ambitions and may be about the announce it is a fait a compli - they have working nuke arms. In spite of the Biden admini’s childish hopes to persuade the Mullahs in Tehran to drop their nuclear ambitions, my view is their own recognition of the failure of that, more than anything else, is what has led to the increased pursuit of a nuclear technology deal with the Saudis.
There is even more to it than that. Literally no one needs US help to develop nuclear bombs.
There is a good analysis online. The question was this:
If the Soviets had not gotten spies to provide them information on the Manhattan Project or the design of bombs used on Japan, how long would it have taken them to develop their own.
Answer: They would have had one sooner. They had fine physicists and plenty of material — and they had their own design that they were sure was superior. But their supervision wanted them to use the US design as lower risk to the expense. Already tested. So they built to that design and did their explosion in 1949.
About a year or so later they exploded their own design, with far higher yield and better efficiency compared to the US design.
There is WAY too much presumption the US has superior tech in more or less everything. It’s just not so.
“There is WAY too much presumption the US has superior tech in more or less everything. “
I do not think that “superior” technology is the cause of the Saudi desire for the deal. They do not want to change strategic partners vis-a-vis their regional conflicts with Mullahs in Tehran, and they do not trust Russia to be on their side in that regard (Russsia has too much of an alliance with the Mullahs in Tehran on mulitple fronts), and going with Russian tehnology as opposed to U.S. technology just does not seem like a strategically good deal to them.
Well, Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and of course Iran is the center of Shiite Islam.
The two factions have hated each other forever. It has nothing to do with current ideologies nor Israel.
The Saudis can buy any tech they don’t create themselves, from whoever will sell it, which is pretty much anyone if the price is high enough. They have zero incentive to align with the US, who after all sought to pin the Khassoggi murder on MBS. Doesn’t matter if it was true. It’s a betrayal of the relationship as it existed at that moment.
And because that pointed at MBS, that betrayal was a personal one.
Now, the Saudis certainly want Assad gone from Syria and the Russians say no. The most crushing reality in the view of the Saudis is the US did not get rid of Assad. They claimed that was a huge goal and they failed. The Saudis see this. There is no value in aligning with the US.
Hamas is Sunni, btw. It ain’t Iranian money propping them up.
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