The United States and Saudi Arabia have finalized a deal for the Gulf monarchy to receive nearly $142 billion in new weapons, military equipment, and training support, the White House announced on May 13.
The agreement is part of a larger $600 billion deal for Saudi Arabia to expand its economic ties with the United States. The White House announced the deal at the start of President Donald Trump’s planned four-day tour of the Middle East.
In a fact sheet it released on Tuesday, the White House called the $600 billion overall deal “the largest set of commercial agreements on record between the two countries,” with the military component alone representing “the largest defense sales agreement in history.”…