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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:27 AM Apr 2015

Obama approved more arms sales than any other pres. since WW II- report

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Obama approved more arms sales than any other pres. since WW II- report (Original Post) DeSwiss Apr 2015 OP

Isn't the USA the #1 arms dealer? delrem Apr 2015 #1

It's one of few products whose manufacture has not been entirely offshored. So, there's that. merrily Apr 2015 #3

you betcha it's important. delrem Apr 2015 #4

Putin's Russia Today provided this story dvduval Apr 2015 #6

No wonder he is coming to take our guns! He needs them for resale. merrily Apr 2015 #2

Our guns won't ring cash registers for these guys: DeSwiss Apr 2015 #5

delrem

(9,688 posts)

1. Isn't the USA the #1 arms dealer?

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 05:45 AM

Apr 2015

merrily

(45,251 posts)

3. It's one of few products whose manufacture has not been entirely offshored. So, there's that.

Reply to delrem (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:19 AM

Apr 2015

delrem

(9,688 posts)

4. you betcha it's important.

Reply to merrily (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:24 AM

Apr 2015

dvduval

(260 posts)

6. Putin's Russia Today provided this story

Reply to delrem (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 01:54 PM

Apr 2015

While it is worth consideration, it is important to recognize that Putin controls Russia Today, and is especially concerned about arms sales to countries like Ukraine that Russia is the process of invading.

merrily

(45,251 posts)

2. No wonder he is coming to take our guns! He needs them for resale.

Reply to DeSwiss (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:17 AM

Apr 2015

Sigh. Perception is everything. Or, so practitioners of the confidence game believe.

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

5. Our guns won't ring cash registers for these guys:

Reply to merrily (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 06:41 AM

Apr 2015

- We can call it ''Quantitative Feasting'' for the defense industry. They've been so worried since they lost their two wars that they had going -- and are petering out. For now. This should tide them over.

One way to always require Defenders is by creating plenty of ''enemies'' and then arming them. Even if ''accidentally......''

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''The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.''

~George Orwell, 1984

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