16 Sept 2019

$295 billion defense budget of Saudi Arabia failed to protect attack on oil installations!

Abqaiq refinery is burning
RI
No matter who was behind the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil installations, what is quite clear is that billions of dollars of military purchases from the US and the UK by the Saudis were unable to prevent such an attack.

I found Abdus-Sattar Ghazali's comments on this issue interesting.


The Journal of America

With $295 billion 2019 defence budget, Saudi Arabia failed to stop a drone attack on its oil installations from the Yemeni rebel ragtag militia.