(07-15-2017 05:14 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  Huh? My point is that selling weapons isn't going to offset the balance of power in the region because the Russians are on the other side of the scale.
And FWIW, I doubt we're selling top shelf stuff to the Saudis.

Note that the Saudis are buying something like $20 Billion in arms from the Russians... they cancelled a previous deal for some political reason, and may have come back with a $3.5 billion deal, or something like that...

According to this article, the Russians have about $15 Billion in annual sales, so this is pretty substantial for them. The US recently signed a $115 Billion arms deal for the people of Yemen, by way of Mecca.