State Department approves over $8B in arms sales to Gulf nations

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8. The MIC is setting up a new hot war zone. Maybe not this year or next but 5 or 10 years down the road, it's just stupid

We can't keep dumping this many weapons into a region wrought with not just religious persecution and violent repression but extremely excessive societal economic oppression. These countries oppress the poor majorities like there's no tomorrow. The American people have been fooled into thinking these Persian Gulf countries are so rich, everyone lives like kings when it's quite the opposite. These Monarchies oppress anything that would get in the way of them holding on to the majority of economic wealth as ALL Monarchies in history have. Toss in the vicious religious divisions and you have a ticking time bomb as soon as there is a power vacuum. And there will be. Look what happened to Iran and Iraq, both stocked to the hilt by not just us but Russia, in the 50's and 60's. The Iran Iraq war was insanely one of the most vicious bloody wars of the 20th century. To think these countries will be any different is just foolish and it could very well draw the big players right into the quagmire. It very nearly has now.