US-Saudi arms deal = genocide on Yemen
NOVANEWS
By Meghann Adams
On May 20, President Trump signed a long-awaited $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The total for the package is over ten years, but the first $110 billion is for immediate trade between the United States and Saudi Arabia for tanks, helicopters, ships and a missile-defense system, among “security tools.” While the deal has been in the process for weeks, the final announcement comes as Trump takes his first international trip, spending the first days in Riyadh with the Saudi royal family.
In truth, the weapons deal is not all that surprising. The very founding of Saudi Arabia, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, saw a victorious British empire install a family of corrupt landlords to rule the area in the hopes of controlling the re...