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That’ll be nice for them to use against the Yemeni people. But really that’s nothing, my country (UK) sold 11 billion pounds worth of weapons to Saudi in 2019 and authorised another 1.4 billion pound deal in February 2021. This is despite a June 2020 ruling in the British courts that arms deals with Saudi were unlawful and demanding a government review. However, in July this year the government announced it was resuming arms sales to Saudi Arabia, after a review concluded there had been only “isolated incidents” of airstrikes in Yemen that breached humanitarian law. This and my countries selling of chemicals and components to Syria that ended up being used in the manufacture of the deadly nerve agent sarin make me incredibly proud to be Brittish.
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