Danger of US giving Saudis F35s: Golden opportunity for normalization slipping away? - analysis

[AZ_HighCountry]

This article is just up on TWZ. Well worth the read:

Impact Of Selling F-35s To Saudi Arabia On The Region And Beyond

In a major policy shift, the Trump administration wants to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia, but there are still hurdles ahead and concerns to satisfy. The Trump administration wants to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia, but there are still some significant hurdles ahead.

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[Hamartia Antidote]

(just 1 single country with a small population and an economy barely larger than UAE), at the expense of the Arab world (combined almost 4th largest economy in the world - in the future even larger given demographics and future population size),

latest example of what I mean by Israel being a huge R&D center for critical US tech

Nvidia presents next generation AI chips developed in Israel

en.globes.co.il

Nvidia also unveiled two chips developed in Israel, BlueField-4 and ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, which represent the spine of the next generation of AI factories and cloud data centers. The chips, developed at Nvidia’s R&D center in Tel Aviv, are designed to accelerate data transmission and inference processing of huge AI models, supporting speeds of up to 800 Gb/s. The company says that BlueField-4 supplies six times more processing power for AI workloads than the previous generation of chips, and supports systems four times as large.

We'd rather they work for US companies than Russian/Chinese.
Lots of ex-Soviet Jews there...more than American Jews.

 

[Musings]

remember congress need to aprove the f 35 sell

Someones got heartburn issues here.
Trump says yes - it means a yes.

 

[dani191]

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thats your problem you buy s 400

 

[The SC]

State of play: During their remarks to the press last week, Trump told MBS he will supply Saudi Arabia with the same advanced model of the F-35 fighter jets that Israel has, despite pushback from the Israelis.

This is best expressed as disappointment and annoyance. The president desperately wants them to join the Abraham Accords. He did his best to convince MBS. It was a frank discussion. But Mohammed bin Salman is a strong man. He stuck to his guns, the source said.

Mohammed bin Salman demanded that Israel, in exchange for any peace agreement with Saudi Arabia, agree to an “irreversible, credible, and time-bound path” to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Mohammed bin Salman made this clear publicly after the meeting.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

latest example of what I mean by Israel being a huge R&D center for critical US tech

Nvidia presents next generation AI chips developed in Israel

en.globes.co.il

We'd rather they work for US companies than Russian/Chinese.
Lots of ex-Soviet Jews there...more than American Jews.

Nvidia's Huang confirms plan to build new campus in Israel | The Jerusalem Post

The campus will accommodate a higher number of employees than industry executives initially estimated - double the number of the company's employees in Israel today.

www.jpost.com

Jensen Huang says Israel is 'our second home' as Nvidia confirms new campus plans​

 

[The SC]

Netanyahu: Israel is investing more than $100 billion in an attempt to have an independent weapons industry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel, based on lessons learned from its fighting over the past two years, is working to achieve as much independence as possible in weapons production.