Posts by ProppedUp

1,000 jobs on the line at BAE Systems' Lancashire plants – reports

Re: Hey don't knock it...

You say that but it's only because of the West's relationship with Saudi Arabia that we've been able to pressure and convince them to change the law on women driving. Small potatoes here, but a significant change for the better there.

Re: .. Maybe

The Saudi state doesn't finance terrorists; there are individuals in the Royal Family who do, but that's not the same thing as state policy.

The point of selling them weapons is strategic. Sell them weapons, they become critically dependent on us [US, France, Germany]. In effect, it means they can't go to war without our permission.

Yemen is a proxy war with with Shia Iran. What is Saudi meant to do, exactly? Leave the Iranian regime, an enemy state, to gain a foothold in a neighbouring country?

Musk: Come ride my Big F**king Rocket to Mars

Re: HOTOL / Skylon / A2 is a very different cryptid

Why on Earth would the gov. pay the full bill? The gov. invested £60 million, enough money to help them attract further (private) investment from BAE and DARPA. The gov. did exactly what it should have done.