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Post by SA Hunter on Oct 22, 2018 9:40:08 GMT 10
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Beno
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Post by Beno on Oct 22, 2018 13:28:54 GMT 10
This is on top of $400 million worth of Apache choppers purchased a few months ago. Pull all of our aid out of Indonesia, they don’t need it.
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Post by SA Hunter on Oct 22, 2018 18:16:30 GMT 10
If they can afford these fighters, why are we providing $360 million in aid to Indonesia in 2017/2018 financial year? especially as their military budget it over 7910.8 USD Million for 2018 ( tradingeconomics.com/indonesia/military-expenditure ) makes you wonder why - maybe to try to placate a potential angry northern neighbour?
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Beno
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Post by Beno on Oct 22, 2018 19:46:10 GMT 10
If they can afford these fighters, why are we providing $360 million in aid to Indonesia in 2017/2018 financial year? especially as their military budget it over 7910.8 USD Million for 2018 ( tradingeconomics.com/indonesia/military-expenditure ) makes you wonder why - maybe to try to placate a potential angry northern neighbour? Indonesia is the country China would use for a proxy war on Australia. So we pay them to play nice. That has not worked very well at times and may be increasingly difficult with a more extreme muslim government.
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Post by Morgo on Oct 22, 2018 20:53:23 GMT 10
Here's an idea, instead of giving them 100's of millions every year in "aid", why don't we buy 11 SUKHOI SU 35's instead.
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Post by SA Hunter on Oct 22, 2018 21:36:51 GMT 10
Here's an idea, instead of giving them 100's of millions every year in "aid", why don't we buy 11 SUKHOI SU 35's instead. Not a bad idea - think of the $$$ we'd save if we didn't buy those high priced lemons from the US.
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Post by jonasparker on Oct 23, 2018 3:17:42 GMT 10
Based on an intel briefing I received a few years ago, we will now offer a prayer for the repose of the souls of the pilots who have to fly those planes...
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