"America's Guns: Secret Pipeline to Syria" Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Aug 2019 3:20 p.m. PST |
"It's well known that the United States exports billions of dollars' worth of arms and ammunition to its allies. What isn't as widely understood is that many of the guns it supplies to "partner forces" fighting wars in the Middle East – particularly to rebels in Syria – are Soviet-style munitions such as RPGs and Kalashnikovs which are obtained from manufacturers in Bulgaria, Serbia and other Eastern European countries. There are many reasons for this, of which the most obvious are that fighters in the region have long been familiar with these types of weapons and would rather use them than anything else, and they are relatively easy to obtain. Another reason is that providing guns which can't easily be traced back to the US puts a politically convenient degree of separation between the US and those to whom the arms go – even when the supplies have been sanctioned at the highest level…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Legion 4 | 17 Aug 2019 8:19 a.m. PST |
Something like this happened in A'stan during USSR's occupation. The US got many Russian weapons from e.g. Egypt and gave them to the Muj. But also US Stinger AA and Milan AT missiles from some European county went to the Muj too … |
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