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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 04:05 PM Sep 2014

This Map Of US And Russian Arms Sales Says It All



They say the Cold War is over, but Russia and the U.S. remain the leading supplier of weapons to countries around the world and are the two biggest military powers. Lately, tensions have been pretty high, too.

The U.S. supplies much of NATO and Middle Eastern allies like Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Russia supplies other BRIC nations, as well as Iran, much of Southeast Asia, and North Africa.

We took numbers from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute for 2012-2013 to see whom the two rivals were supplying with weaponry. The U.S. dealt to 59 nations that Russia doesn't sell or send weaponry to, while Russia dealt to just 15 nations that don't receive U.S. arms.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/map-shows-us-russias-worldwide-140503590.html


Note that Syria is a Russian arms consumer.
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This Map Of US And Russian Arms Sales Says It All (Original Post) grahamhgreen Sep 2014 OP
Interesting, but you failed to implicate Obama this time around... very disappointing. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1
Yeah, then the politicians sit with their thumbs up their well fed asses Warpy Sep 2014 #2
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Interesting, but you failed to implicate Obama this time around... very disappointing.
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 04:19 PM
Sep 2014

Because, yanno, this happened with him, on his watch, we need to hold his feet to the fire, yadayadayada.

TPTB and Congress and the MIC have far less to do with it.



Warpy

(110,900 posts)
2. Yeah, then the politicians sit with their thumbs up their well fed asses
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 04:22 PM
Sep 2014

when people ask them why the world is in flames.

It doesn't matter who is supplying them during a continuous proxy war being waged over the heads of brown people. The point is to keep them using up the death toys so they have to buy more as their children starve and their countries fall apart at the seams.

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