Faraan Zionist Research Base; The arms trade is inherently secretive and makes the researcher’s job very difficult. Especially since it is a wide-ranging discussion and includes one hundred and fifty countries of the world and hundreds of companies and thousands of brokers. Some arms dealers in the private sector of the colonial states, after the end of each war by the parties involved, buy unused or somewhat defective weapons and after repair, offer them on the world open market, where such sales have no place in the official statistics.
The manufacturers and exporters of arms in the free world and intermediaries profiting from wars and assassinations are mainly from the United States, Russia, France, Britain, China, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Brazil. The major buyers include India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan and the Gulf states.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and the United Arab Emirates bought $ 2.60 billion worth of weapons between 1981 and 1991.
Purchasing weapons is more about maintaining order within each country than defending against aggressors. The army and the armed forces in the colonies are the main bases of power and the ruling government.
In some cases, the purchase of arms is done in order to maintain good relations with the ruling class of the capitalist colonial powers. After the collapse and the establishment of an understanding between the eastern and western halves of the capitalist world, the military budgets of the capitalist colonial countries and consequently the amount of domestic purchases in these countries declined.
This caused the attention and interest of the private sector of the arms manufacturers as well as the public sector in these countries to pay more heed to the export of weapons to the third world countries. This was in order to produce and provide the necessary capital to continue inventions in the field of weapons and prevent raising the price of each piece due to limited sales.
Meanwhile, the American arms companies ‘Roman’ and ‘General Dynamics and M, C. Danel, Douglas’, proposed a plan to double the arms exports in the following years.
It was a continuation of this policy that the United States exported weapons to the third world countries in 1990. It doubled and exceeded $ 18.5 billion, with the United States leading the way in heavy weapons exports.
The plunder of the imperialist countries is not only limited to arms exports, as the Kayhan newspaper wrote on 5, Bahman, 1370: “The British Ministry of Defense Police officers attacked the center of several companies in London and other cities of England to search for the documents related to scams of twenty million Lira related to the abuse of the British shipping brokers with the help of corrupt officials in the country during the transfer of the British troops to the Persian Gulf War fronts.”
Source: Iraj Tabrizi, ‘Satanic trade: Arms Trade’
