Now that we ’ve cause YouTube , Google , and Facebook out of the way , how about another Hottest Trends List ! This one ’s a little morose though . Like , international blazon cut-rate sale morose . Sowholoves American best - in - the - world weapon system ? king and dictator .
The newdata , compiled by the Congressional Research Service , pool Pentagon info from 2003 to 2010 , shows America ’s top customers in the weapons game — planes , triggerman , and everything between . Which is how the business works ! But did you notice how hard it was for the Egyptian masses to unseat their government ? And how much worry ( and death ) they ’re encountering essay to shed the every bit entrenched Egyptian war machine ? That ’s because they ’re armed with America ’s finest , spending a world - lead $ 10.3 billion on American weapon system during that seven year period — like that tear gascanisterseen above .
What ’s really Inside the Tear Gas Being Used in Egypt ?
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2 . Israel- $ 9.8 billion
3 . Saudi-Arabian Arabia- $ 9.5 billion
4 . Taiwan- $ 7.1 billion
5 . Greece- $ 5.5 billion
Saudi Arabia , although technically an autocratic ally of the US , has a severely in question human right story , and Greece has also cracked down heavily on its own people this past twelvemonth . It should be no surprise unpopular governments want American guns — we’re the unspoiled . Would n’t you ? [ FAS ]
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