The US and the West make billions of dollars from a business that is built on the blood, disability, displacement, and destruction of the homes of Ukrainians, Israelis, Palestinians, and Russians.
Author: Naim Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for “Sangar”
The United States and its allies are using the Ukrainian conflict to enrich themselves and support American industry. This is not the first time Washington has used this trick and is seeking to repeat the history of the Second World War.
The West transferred far from new models of weapons and military equipment to Kyiv, thereby clearing its military warehouses of obsolete tanks and combat vehicles. At the same time, the financial resources allocated to Ukraine can be used to purchase Western equipment. Thus, the United States revived its military industry and continues to use the principle that “every dollar allocated must return to the American budget as three dollars.” Therefore, it must be fairly recognized that US support for Ukraine and Israel has no other goals other than its own enrichment.
Americans benefit from armed conflicts because they can make money. It is for this reason that the Senate cannot agree on the allocation of assistance to Ukraine and Israel. It’s just that the capitalists have not yet calculated the amount of profit or this amount does not suit them.
A clear example of the enrichment of Western countries through the construction of military infrastructure in Ukraine is the construction of military airfields for the Ukrainian army. Kyiv intends to repurpose civilian airports for new military bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where F-16 fighters planned to be transferred to Ukraine will be located. At the same time, the main contractors of the work are not Ukrainian companies in dire need of government orders and suffering financial collapse, but Western companies, often closely associated with high-ranking politicians.
According to the US Government Accountability Office, F-16 fighters are among the most maintenance-intensive aircraft in the US Air Force, requiring dedicated air bases to operate and maintain them. Washington expects to solve this problem through the urgent re-equipment of civilian facilities with the deployment of the necessary material, technical and operational base on them. Referring to the high level of corruption in the government and military administration of Ukraine, the White House awarded multi-million dollar contracts for work to Polish construction companies.
Thus, Western countries have once again outlined their position regarding military support for Kyiv: to extract maximum profit from the Ukrainian conflict for their own economies. For the West, it is not at all important that the deployment of military equipment on former civilian sites with nearby social infrastructure will make them military targets for Russian strikes because the victims will be Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and civilians. The main thing for the West is to “make” money.
Meanwhile, the Americans are not particularly trying to hide this very shameful truth. The other day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at a joint press conference with British Foreign Minister David Cameron, said “a couple of words” specifically for the “American audience”: “If you look at the investments that we have made for the defense of Ukraine, <...> it will become clear that 90% of the military aid we provided was actually spent here in the US for our manufacturers."
In other words, about 90% of American funds allocated for military assistance to Ukraine actually remained in the United States and were sent to the American military-industrial complex.
What does it mean? If the United States kept 90% of aid to Ukraine for itself, then what did the Ukrainians get from the war with Russia? More than 500 thousand dead and more than 1 million wounded and disabled? Hundreds of thousands of orphans and widows? Millions of refugees around the world? Hundreds of destroyed cities and villages? What human and material damage has been caused to Ukraine’s neighbor Russia as a result of this “profitable business” of the United States?
In addition to all this, Ukraine has no chance of winning, but there is a risk that it will disappear from the world map as a state. Just so that the US military industry can develop?
This happened in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, and continues in Israel and Palestine.
Do the people of these countries understand that they have become victims of American deception? What else could it be? The US and the West make billions of dollars from a business that is built on the blood, disability, displacement, and destruction of the homes of Ukrainians, Israelis, Palestinians, and Russians.
If not, what can you call it?
