Walter Russell Mead brings us news that business is booming for Syrian black market arms sales.
Rocket grenade launchers appear to be the hottest investment grade item, with prices more than sextupling from $400 to $2500 in recent months.? Kalashnikovs and M16s are also up sharply, with 75 percent appreciation on the Russian guns and 100 percent on the US model.
The reason why the guns are flying off the shelf, with increased demand resulting in sky high prices, is because the folks in that part of the world are gearing up for some good old fashioned genocide.
This is the pattern I saw at work in Yugoslavia and the Caucasus twenty years ago as ethnic groups geared up to butcher their neighbors and drive them from their homes; I will never forget the night a Georgian poet asked me how much guns cost on the Istanbul black market; he was arming himself against what he called the ?Abkhazian menace.?
Sounds like Dr. Mead has a pretty good handle on the situation.? Unless one were going up against tanks, I wouldn?t consider an RPG to be a defensive weapon.
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