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The Saud royal family are by far the world\u2019s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world\u2019s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his (Aramco\u2019s) 260 billion barrels of oil reserves were valued at $100 per barrel, his net worth was over $15 trillion. The King has total control over the world\u2019s largest (in terms of dollar-value) company:\u00a0Aramco<\/a>. Since 1980, the Saudi government has owned 100% of it; the Saudi government is totally under the King\u2019s exclusive control. The King owns all that oil. Forbes and Bloomberg decline to estimate his wealth, because kings don\u2019t want them to; but, clearly, it dwarfs that of anyone such as Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. And Gates and Buffett don\u2019t possess the power to keep their wealth from becoming published, but the Saudi King does.<\/p>\nOn 13 September 2010, Britain\u2019s\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>headlined<\/a>\u00a0\u00abUS secures record $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia\u00bb. On 28 January 2012,\u00a0Dayton Business Journal<\/em>\u00a0bannered<\/a>\u00a0\u00abTop 10 foreign buyers of US weapons\u00bb, and Saudi Arabia was #1 that year, with $13.8 billion. #2 was UAE, with 10.4 billion. UAE is run by six royal families, all friends of the Saud family; and, like the Sauds, they follow the strictest, Wahhabist-Salafist, form of Islam, the type of Sunni Islam that\u2019s preached by ISIS and by Al-Qaeda. Current \u2018defense\u2019 expenditure figures aren\u2019t available; but, clearly, the Sauds are now fully embroiled in slaughtering Shiites both in Yemen and in Syria, and are buying far more US weapons today than they were before \u2013 the sum probably dwarfs any previous sales-volume.<\/p>\n It\u2019s good business for the owners of US \u2018Defense\u2019 contractors. On 15 May 2015, Alex Kane at Alternet\u00a0headlined<\/a>\u00a0\u00ab4 US Companies Getting Rich Off Gulf Arab Conflict With Iran\u00bb, and the companies were: Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and United Technologies. In 2015,\u00a0lobbying<\/a>\u00a0for the \u00abDefense\u00bb sector amounted to $96 million. $56 million of that was specifically on \u00abDefense Aerospace\u00bb.<\/p>\n …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" America\u2019s Subservience to Saud Family The Saud royal family are by far the world\u2019s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world\u2019s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his (Aramco\u2019s) 260 billion barrels of oil reserves were valued at $100 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,11583,1319,4394,446,11582,701,11584,827,11198],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-aramco","tag-armaments","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-isis","tag-saud-royal-family","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strategic-culture-org","tag-united-states","tag-wahhabism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16249,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}