US President Donald Trump signed a $142bn defense sales agreement in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as he continued to push the kingdom to pour a trillion dollars of investment into his country.
Trump, who was treated to an escort of several Saudi F-15 fighter jets upon his arrival, had been pushing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to up a previously promised $600bn investment to an eye-watering $1 trillion.
The new arms deal, which includes exports of GE gas turbines and energy solutions totaling $14.2bn and Boeing 737-8 passenger aircraft totaling $4.8bn, goes some way towards fulfilling that aim.
One Saudi Arabian company also plans on to invest $20bn in AI-related sites in the United States, the White House said on Tuesday.
That moment when you sign a “peace agreement” with Yemen, only to arm the Saudis a week later. This pretty much breaks whatever agreement they had, let’s hope they blow up Aramco facilities again.
They are buying for like 2 billion in Reaper drones. The ones which Ansarallah is swatting out of the sky like flies these days. Great investment.