Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen

Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by reitanqild on Friday November 23, 2018 @10:45AM (#18517049)

> Why do we keep selling weapons to such a repressive regime?

I'm happy that the country I'm living in stopped selling to them earlier this year.

That said, if one should steelman (as we are kind of expected to do to each other here) the goverments that hasn't done it yet, -here is some rebar IMO:

boycotting them as hard as we should have done might drive them straight into the arms of Russia and China which would probably love to sell some weapons and get a new ally.

I'd love to see that argument torn down as well though.

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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by GordonS on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:46PM (#18518821)

> boycotting them as hard as we should have done might drive them straight into the arms of Russia and China which would probably love to sell some weapons and get a new ally

Personally, I'd rather take the moral high-ground here.

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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by thwyanony11122 on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:11AM (#18517238)

You cut your losses is what you do. If a relationship isn’t working, you cut your losses.

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