Why is the United States so heavily aiding Ukraine?There may not be a single cause. From the point of view of the Washington Post, much of this aid has actually been used by the United States itself, and furthermore, the funds will be used by the United States to prepare for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, the White House approved a total of $68 billion in military aid to Ukraine, but 90 percent was left in the United States. How exactly are these funds spent?
First of all, the first use of these funds is to place orders for domestic military-industrial enterprises in the United States for the production of ** ammunition for aid to Ukraine, or to refurbish old equipment from US stocks for Ukraine. Overall, the use of this part of the funds in the United States is quite considerable. Through these orders, the United States has activated its own production lines and re-injected many of the once decaying military-industrial chains. Secondly, part of the funds was used for the purchase of equipment, but not directly to Ukraine.
Instead, the equipment ends up in U.S. control and is used to replace old equipment used in Ukraine. This approach not only guarantees assistance to Ukraine, but also protects the interests of the United States itself. However, this move has also sparked controversy. Some argue that doing so could pose a risk to the United States' own arsenals, as it would lead to an overactivity of the U.S. armament chain. Generally speaking, the U.S. military aid policy to Ukraine is to some extent aimed at safeguarding its own national interests, and at the same time, it also supports Ukraine to a certain extent.
The formulation and implementation of such policies is not only a political decision, but also closely related to economic and international strategies. In this process, some art companies falsely declare orders, thereby withholding part of the funds, which is regarded as a normal operation in the art industry and is not regarded as a major event. Second, the United States has used these funds to upgrade its own military industry, for example, by expanding its ability to produce 155-millimeter artillery shells, and restoring many previously lost military production capacity, while leading to some new project research.
However, these funds are used for the sake of the United States' own interests, and Ukraine does not receive any substantial assistance. Third, the U.S. military has placed a batch of equipment orders in the name of aiding Ukraine, but has kept these equipment for its own use, or diverted it to aid other countries, such as Israel. Again, Ukraine does not receive any substantial assistance from it.
Therefore, compared with the $68 billion "huge money" that has been reported at home and abroad, Ukraine actually receives much less aid from the United States, and most of this money is used to improve the United States' own military industrial capacity. This is also where we need to be vigilant: the United States is restoring its military-industrial capability.
After the end of the Cold War, due to the loss of the Soviet Union, the largest military rival, and the wave of "neoliberalism" promoted by Reagan at that time, the production capacity of American industrial enterprises fell sharply, not only affecting R&D and manufacturing capabilities, but also frequently reporting high purchases. For example, the U.S. Air Force's F35A fighter jet, which was priced at $200 million by Loma at the time, was a profit marginAfter Trump named and criticized, Loma reduced the company to $80 million, still making a considerable profit.
Loma then dramatically increased the after-sales service of the F35A fighter jet, resulting in a 30-year service cost for the fighter that was higher than before, demonstrating the unscrupulous efforts of U.S. companies to profit from the U.S. treasury. Although Loma is a relatively honest company, its products have good performance and production capacity, and can produce more than 100 F35 fighters per year. In contrast, Boeing has fared even worse.
The F15EX fighter jet manufactured by the company, a fourth-and-a-half-generation fighter, has a unit price of hundreds of millions of dollars, mainly due to Boeing's political influence, which makes it impossible for the United States to put pricing pressure on it as it does with the F35A. However, the F15EX fighters delivered by Boeing are not only far inferior in performance to the F35A, but also have serious quality problems, and even the production capacity is very limited, only 2 F15EXs can be produced in a year.
Loma and Boeing, the two largest U.S. military enterprises, actually represent the state of the entire U.S. industry. Against the backdrop of the gradual shift in the overall strategy of the United States to great power competition with China and Russia, this corrupt and corrupt military industry is so corrupt that even the old-timers of the US Congress cannot stand it, and they must take tough measures to rectify it.
Moreover, after the Cold War, the speed of equipment renewal of the US military has slowed down, equipment procurement has been greatly reduced, many equipment manufacturing enterprises have closed down, and the supporting ** chain has also been broken, or the production line is aging, which requires the United States to invest funds to restore and upgrade. At present, the United States has diverted funds originally intended to aid Ukraine to strengthen its own military industrial capabilities, indicating that the United States is actively preparing to deal with great power competition. As a target of the United States, China needs to be on high alert to these actions by the United States, as it prepares for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
Obviously, most of the money that the United States supposedly provides to Ukraine actually goes to the US military-industrial complex in order to restore and upgrade the industry. According to the Washington Post, the US move is intended to prepare for a possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait. If the United States chooses to intervene in China's reconquest of Taiwan in the form of armed intervention, they will be confronted with the surprising military-industrial production capacity of the world's first industrial power.
At present, the United States is obviously not ready to deal with large-scale conflicts or even local wars, and its military industrial capacity cannot even meet the scale of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Therefore, in the face of the conflict between China and the United States, it is more difficult for the needs of the United States to be met. The United States is obviously aware of this, and in recent years has been continuously reinvigorating its domestic industrial capacity and increasing the production capacity of the military industry. This also makes us realize that the U.S. military may be more likely to intervene in our recovery of Taiwan by force in the future, so we must also be prepared, including increasing the production capacity of some military industries, in case of contingencies.
In the face of this less optimistic prospect, we can only ensure our own safety in the face of changes if we are fully prepared and have our own strength.