Middle East: Saudi Arabia approved raising the arms purchase budget to 78.4 billion dollars during the next year 2023. Observers said that Saudi Arabia is trying to compensate for a military and political failure by allocating more money for its military budget, especially in light of the setback that Riyadh is facing in its war on Yemen.

Observers believe that raising the Saudi military budget is no more than a public relations campaign to entice the international community not to deal with the Kingdom of Al Saud as a pariah member of the international family.

Although Saudi Arabia is the world's largest arms purchaser, according to the annual reports of the Stockholm Institute of Peace, the Saudi military arsenal has not been able to make Saudi Arabia a weight relative to the size of its weapons.

During the eight years of the war waged by Saudi Arabia against Yemen, there have been nearly 400,000 civilians killed by the coalition in Yemen, which raises the question why Saudi weapons are only good at killing civilians?

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is classified in the United Nations Human Development Reports, as one of the developing countries that suffer from imbalance in directing expenditures, due to the exorbitant spending on armaments and the neglect of aspects of development and the economy.

Some consider that Riyadh, despite modernization attempts that have reached the point of deviating from Islamic customs and traditions, and has caused a state of vertigo in society in the Kingdom, the Saudi regime still adheres to its traditional ideas through the accumulation of an arsenal of weapons, which seems to have become Riyadh's only link to the world. Saudi Arabia makes one of the biggest paradoxes in the world, topping the list of countries in the world to buy weapons, but Saudi Arabia does not hesitate to ask for help as soon as it feels any danger!

Despite the war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia and the rest of its partners in the aggression against Yemen, there are major international powers such as the United States and Britain that are keen to develop the Saudi greed for arms purchase. This keenness is based on a look of extortionate and arrogant Saudi Arabia is just a child who has a lot of money and does not have the brain to manage that money.

Source: YPA, Translated by Almasirah English website