"$238 billion, a record! ”
The United States recently announced the amount of military equipment that the United States will send to foreign countries in fiscal year 2023, and the numbers are staggering.
America's **all went to**?
According to Bloomberg, about 2,000 Hellfire missiles were shipped from the United States to Israel just over a month after the start of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick bluntly said in an interview, "All our missiles, ammunition, precision-guided bombs, all planes and bombs, come from the United States." Everyone understands that we cannot fight this war without the United States. ”
Sorting forward, after the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, the American fire giants quickly ushered in a "sales boom": Germany and the Czech Republic plan to buy 35 and 24 F-35 fighters from Lockheed Martin respectively, Poland plans to buy a number of MQ-9 UAVs produced by General Atomics, and many Eastern European countries plan to purchase American-made "Stinger" anti-aircraft missiles and "Javelin" anti-tank missile ......The reason why these countries purchase a large number of ** equipment is largely to fill the gap created after the military aid to Ukraine and prepare for a larger conflict.
planting thorns and burying mines, arching fires and adding oil; Watch the fire from the other side and reap the ...... of fishing profitsTo put it bluntly, every dollar seized by the United States from foreign arms sales is stained with blood. At present, the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lasted for more than four months, and the number of dead and injured Gaza residents has reached nearly 100,000, and it is still increasing. The crisis in Ukraine has dragged on to this day, and in addition to battlefield offensives, vicious attacks have occurred from time to time, and a large number of innocent civilians have been in the war**...
And what has been made in a pool of blood is the community of interests composed of American politicians and military-industrial enterprises. The U.S. industrial complex arose after World War II. In the Cold War, the U.S. economy and military strengthened, and most of the Fortune 500 companies became defense contractors. During the entire Cold War, the United States spent $10 trillion on defense, and the direct beneficiary was the military industry. At that time, there were people who shouted that the American economy had become a "vassal tied to the chariot." For decades, this special interest group formed by the military, military industrial complex, and politicians has continued to provoke conflicts and create wars around the world, bringing huge humanitarian disasters while constantly accumulating and expanding wealth through war, and becoming a behemoth that "dominates the entire American society".
This is a policy that arms dealers like to see, serving only the interests of the top 1 percent of society. "The key to the military-industrial complex lies in the deep collusion between government and enterprises. The military-industrial complex finances congressmen to achieve their personal political goals; Parliamentarians approve huge military spending in return and take advantage of the opportunity to make profits; The Ministry of Defense** provides a steady stream of arms purchase contracts, which can be cashed out through the "revolving door" between government and business. Many Bidens have had close ties to the military-industrial complex, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin serving on Raytheon's board of directors and Secretary of State Antony Blinken providing policy advice ......to BoeingPolitical donations, lobbying appropriations, and the purchase of shares are interlocked, forming an incomparably huge chain of interests.
Reckless use of military force will bring chaos to the world and erode itself. Under the leadership of the military-industrial complex, a large amount of funds that could have created value in the fields of social and people's livelihood, clean energy, and infrastructure have been invested in the military industry. According to a study by Brown University in the United States, over the past 20 years, the United States has spent $14 trillion on defense, one-third or nearly half of which has gone into the pockets of defense contractors. That's enough to provide health care and two years of preschool education for 13 million American children living below the poverty line until they reach adulthood.
Xinhua News Agency. "Every artillery piece made, every battleship launched, every rocket fired was stolen from people who were hungry and hungry. This 'world' costs not only money, but also the sweat of laborers, the ingenuity of scientists and the hope of children. ”
In the 50s of the 20th century, the warning of Eisenhower, then the United States, was becoming more and more true. Nowadays, under the distorted political ecology of the supremacy of money and votes, American politicians not only have no incentive to stop the expansion of the "war monster", but also continue to frantically "feed" it.