We all know that the U S government loves
their drones. We love to send these unmanned
drones to other countries where we can kill
as many people as we want from the comfort
of our own offices. Right? You just sit there,
you control it from miles away. Sometimes
hundreds of miles away. It doesn't matter.
You don't have to put your life at risk. You
don't have to risk your soldiers, but you
still get to kill people. That is the beauty
of these drones for the U S military and the
federal government. And Trump loves these
drones so much that he is decided to actually
unilaterally alter a, a 1987 missile agreement
that the United States entered into with 35
countries so that we can finally export these
kick ass drones all over the planet. Isn't
that wonderful. Now here's the thing you actually,
can't just alter in international treaty.
That's something that actually every signatory
would, would have to agree to. So, so Trump
is effectively breaking the treaty cause he
doesn't have the authority to just unilaterally
change it. The treaty, by the way, is the
1987 missile technology control regime. 35
countries have signed onto, and it basically
what it says is you can't export or sell these
large missiles capable of delivering large
payloads, uh, for example, possibly a nuclear
warhead. Now, even though this was in 1987,
this also included unmanned aerial vehicles,
the UAVs before they were called drums, uh,
that's what they were. They weren't hugely
popular back then. The technology was still
very rudimentary, uh, but they existed and
it covered those. So Trump decides to change
it. Reclassify what the drones we use are
so that they're no longer a part of this treaty
and they can then be sold. Um, what he's doing.
Uh, here's what it says. The drones in the
category must have a maximum airspeed of less
than 800 kilometers per hour, uh, which will
allow sales of the Reaper and predator drones
used by the U S military as well as others
made by us defense manufacturers. And that
is exactly who is going to benefit from this.
Uh, the white house said, and this is their
official statement. Um, not only do these
outdated standards, give an unfair advantage
to countries outside of the MTCR and hurt
United States industry. They also hinder our
deterrence capability abroad by handicapping,
our partners and allies with subpar technology
Twice, twice, twice in their decision. They
mentioned industry industry that's because
that's what this is all about. This is not
going to benefit our allies. This is going
to hurt the United States, but it is going
to help the military industrial complex, the
weapons manufacturers. They are going to reap
in billions of dollars in sales because of
this decision. And of course, as is always
the case, some of the money they get from
those sales is going to be funneled to pay
for politicians who are going to make things
like this happen. That's how that works. That's
how that disgusting little site, the goal
perpetuates itself. And that is exactly why
Donald Trump did this. He's facing a tough
reelection. He needs all the money he can
get. And this is going to help put more dollars
in his pocket because it's going to help put
more dollars in the pocket of the U S defense
industry.
Oh, and at the same time, it's going to put
these horrific [inaudible] weapons in the
hands of people who hate the United States.
Well, and maybe they love the United States,
but they hate other countries. You know, like
Saudi Arabia, we've seen the abuse as they've
already carried out with us weapons, seeing
them so us weapons to the Taliban and we still
sell them more. I guarantee you, they're going
to be the first ones in line to get their
hands on these drones. Mark. My words, once
this is finalized, that will be one of the
first stories that gets reported massive.
U S drone sales to Saudi Arabia followed shortly
by stories about Saudi Arabia. You is using
us built drones to kill civilians and other
parts of the world that will happen if this
plan goes through.
