March 12, 2018
The United States (click here) remains the world's top weapons seller, accounting for 34 percent of global arms sales over the past five years, a new study shows.
Russia was the second-largest exporter with about 20 percent of all global arms deliveries, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported on March 11 in its latest overview of global weapons transfers.
The U.S. share of arms sales is up from 30 percent recorded in the 2008-12 period, SIPRI said.
"Based on deals signed during the Obama administration, U.S. arms deliveries in 2013–17 reached their highest level since the late 1990s,’ said Aude Fleurant, director of the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Program.
"These deals and further major contracts signed in 2017 will ensure that the U.S.A. remains the largest arms exporter in the coming years," she added.
U.S. arms went to at least 98 countries, with a large portion of U.S. exports consisting of combat and transport aircraft, SIPRI said.
The research group said Russia exported weapons to 47 countries as well as to rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists are fighting the central government in
Kyiv. Overall, Russian arms sales fell 7 percent from the previous five-year period.
France was the third-largest exporter with a 6.7 percent share, followed by Germany and China.
SIPRI said it uses a five-year cycle to evaluate global arms sales to even out abnormalities caused by any one big weapons order during a specific year....
Bolton and Pompeo are meeting with Russians to organize a trip for "Fat Man" Trump. It could well be to convince Russia to stand down from invasions by Israel and the USA into Syria and possibly Iran.
Basically, "Fat Man" Trump is trading sanctions for land. Oh, of course, it is all in the name of peace with North Korea.
June 25, 2018
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton (click here) is heading to Europe on a trip that will also take him to Moscow amid expectations he will clear the way for a July meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bolton is scheduled to first meet with U.S. allies on June 25-26 in London and Rome before traveling on June 27 to the Russian capital, where a spokesman has said he would "discuss a potential meeting" between Trump and Putin.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Bolton will hold talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his Moscow visit.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview over the weekend that Trump was likely to meet Putin "in the not-too-distant future."
The location of such a meeting has not been set, although officials have said it could take place in Vienna....
Don't take my word for it:
November 29, 2017
The Global Military Infrastructure and Logistics Market (click here) is estimated to value $39.05 billion in 2015 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 1.47% during the forecast period to reach $42 billion by 2020....
Turkey just saw the re-election of a dictator and he is violating Russian sanctions and purchasing missiles from Russia. Get this, Turkey as a NATO member is purchasing missiles that are supposed to take down American F-35.
Huh?
Either it is about a new alliance with Russia and the missiles will prevent "Fat Man" Trump from simply dropping munitions all over the Mideast as he did in Syria and/or this is about the Kurds.
3 April 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) pressed ahead Tuesday with the $2.5 billion sale of S-400 anti-air missiles to Turkey in a deal reached over the objections of the U.S. and other NATO allies.
"A priority task in the sphere of military technical cooperation is the implementation of the contract for supplies of S-400 Triumf missile systems to Turkey," Putin said at the start of a two-day visit to Turkey, according to the Russian news agency TASS....
Then there is good old fashion bribery. Turkey will purchase missiles that take down American F-35 jets for a nuclear submarine facility
...On Tuesday, Putin joined Erdogan in Ankara, where they remotely signaled the start of the construction of a Russian-built, $20 billion nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast at Akkuyu. (Akkuyu is on the Mediterranian near Syria where the Russians have traditionally held a naval installation.)
Putin said the plant, to be built by the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom (click here), has a tentative start-up date in 2023 "to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. We agreed with my dear friend [Erdogan] to do everything necessary to achieve that goal."...
A Russian nuclear plant within NATO and in the Mediterranean Sea. Amazing. This is expansion of nuclear powers. It needs to be inspected by the IAEA and found to be within the guidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nuclear facilities are real money to an economy and Russia desperately needs an economy. But, "W" did the same thing in India. Rather than pushing alternative energies which is cheaper and within international laws and moving toward peace and a benevolent Earth climate; "W" opted to sell nuclear technology to countries like India that can't afford it. Everytime a country can't afford the technology it is purchasing, the people are deprived of quality of life.
Turkey just saw the re-election of a dictator and he is violating Russian sanctions and purchasing missiles from Russia. Get this, Turkey as a NATO member is purchasing missiles that are supposed to take down American F-35.
Huh?
Either it is about a new alliance with Russia and the missiles will prevent "Fat Man" Trump from simply dropping munitions all over the Mideast as he did in Syria and/or this is about the Kurds.
3 April 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) pressed ahead Tuesday with the $2.5 billion sale of S-400 anti-air missiles to Turkey in a deal reached over the objections of the U.S. and other NATO allies.
"A priority task in the sphere of military technical cooperation is the implementation of the contract for supplies of S-400 Triumf missile systems to Turkey," Putin said at the start of a two-day visit to Turkey, according to the Russian news agency TASS....
Then there is good old fashion bribery. Turkey will purchase missiles that take down American F-35 jets for a nuclear submarine facility
...On Tuesday, Putin joined Erdogan in Ankara, where they remotely signaled the start of the construction of a Russian-built, $20 billion nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast at Akkuyu. (Akkuyu is on the Mediterranian near Syria where the Russians have traditionally held a naval installation.)
Putin said the plant, to be built by the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom (click here), has a tentative start-up date in 2023 "to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. We agreed with my dear friend [Erdogan] to do everything necessary to achieve that goal."...
A Russian nuclear plant within NATO and in the Mediterranean Sea. Amazing. This is expansion of nuclear powers. It needs to be inspected by the IAEA and found to be within the guidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nuclear facilities are real money to an economy and Russia desperately needs an economy. But, "W" did the same thing in India. Rather than pushing alternative energies which is cheaper and within international laws and moving toward peace and a benevolent Earth climate; "W" opted to sell nuclear technology to countries like India that can't afford it. Everytime a country can't afford the technology it is purchasing, the people are deprived of quality of life.
