Ukraine the New Victim
Unmasking dual roles: US ‘security aid’ to Kiev sheds light on American companies’ involvement in global conflicts
Despite facing challenges related to quantity, both NATO and the United States seem poised to overcome these hindrances through the introduction of strategic weaponry into the Ukrainian conflict. Amid this backdrop, the United States has notably extended substantial support to Ukraine throughout the duration of the conflict. In a recent move, Washington has unveiled plans to dispatch what it terms as “new security assistance,” a package valued at $200 million. This aid encompasses a range of provisions, including air defense munitions, artillery rounds, supplementary mine-clearing equipment, and bolstered anti-armor capabilities.
Obtaining advantages is the top priority of the United States
The United States sends billions of dollars in aid to beneficiaries around the world annually in pursuit of its financial, economic, and security objectives, significantly more than any other nation. U.S. foreign aid was based on various priorities of the Biden administration, including combating climate change, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and countering hostile governments in 2022; and Ukraine has now received the most US foreign aid, since the Ukraine crisis in February of the same year. This is the first time that a European country since the Truman administration (one of the US presidents after World War II) allocated huge sums of money for the reconstruction of the European continent (showing the Europe’s dependence on the United States) through the Marshall Plan after World War II, has taken the first place. The Biden administration and the US Congress have given Ukraine more than $75 billion in aid since the war began, including financial, military, and humanitarian assistance, according to Kiel Institute for the World Economy (the German research institute). These sums will help a wide range of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement and independent broadcasters; although most of these contributions have been related to military affairs. Many other countries, including notably the majority of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and the European Union, are offering large aid packages to Ukraine.
How much has America helped Ukraine?
The Aid is provided mainly through bills of credit. This chart only covers the aid to Ukraine; therefore, it does not include all of the United States’ war-related expenditures.
The majority of this aid has gone towards providing weaponry, instruction, and data. According to many Western experts, the United States and its allies’ military support was crucial to Ukraine’s defence and counteroffensive against Russia.
NATO allies are particularly wary of being drawn directly into hostilities, which would dramatically increase the risk of nuclear war. However, as the conflict has intensified, several donor nations have given up on their earlier hesitation to supply Ukraine with more advanced equipment like combat tanks and cutting-edge fighter jets. The US declared in May 2023 that it would permit its European allies to give Ukraine F-16s built in the US in the following months. The Biden administration has committed to give Ukraine a long list of defence tools, including Abram’s combat tanks, anti-aircraft missiles, coastal defence vessels, and cutting-edge radar and surveillance systems, 17 months into the conflict. The Biden administration decided to give Ukraine cluster munitions in July, despite the fact that most nations forbid their use.
The aid is provided mainly through bills of credit. This chart only covers the aid to Ukraine; therefore, it does not include all of the United States’ war-related expenditures.
The majority of this aid has gone towards providing weaponry, instruction, and data. According to many Western experts, the United States and its allies’ military support was crucial to Ukraine’s defence and counteroffensive against Russia.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has listed the top arms manufacturing and shipping firms in the world, 51% of which are based in the United States and 19% of which are based in Europe, and which together account for 70% of the global arms sales market.
The top 15 arms manufacturers in the world sold about 360 billion dollars’ worth of weapons and military services in 2022.The top ten arms corporations are all either American or Chinese, with only one exception and the top five arms manufacturing companies in the world are based in America.
The fact that the Pentagon budget increase has a good impact on the economy and employment is one of the reasons why both the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States support it. The armaments manufacturing industry offers the best working circumstances for engineers, scientists, and even employees, and the discoveries made by scientists there, are applied to other areas of the economy. However, there is fierce competition among manufacturers as a result of the abundance of weapons producers, and governments subsidize the industry with substantial sums of money. The high profit of the arms manufacturing industry has made all the government officials in America interested in it, and many members of the Congress are big shareholders of the arms manufacturing companies, and it is common that the prosperity of this industry will be very profitable for them. In Europe, the military industry is one of the most important sectors of the economy, and in 1,300 companies active in this field, 500,000 people are working directly and 200,000 people are working indirectly.
Leader of iran's Islamic Revolution addressed the issue of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine on July 12, 2023 while speaking to missionaries and seminary students from all over the nation. He did so after outlining the conflict between the Islamic system and the Western front and outlining the colonialism of the West in earlier centuries.
“The issue with Ukraine is to put a country like the poor, destitute nation of Ukraine in front, let the country fight, let it be killed, so that weapons will be sold and Europeans will be forced to buy weapons, make weapons, share weapons, and the pockets of weapons companies will be filled.”, Ayatollah Khamenei said.