With the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, to which any do not want to let a peaceful ending, the United States is implementing a immense arms sales programme to Europe, which poses a serious threat to peace and stableness in the region.
According to the global Stockholm Institute for Peace investigation (SIPRI), there has been another increase in the sale of US weapons to Europe, while the United States' participation in its global exports has increased.
Cost-effective support for conflict
This trend, of course, is linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine, in which supposedly the collective West, with the United States at the head, does not participate, but the American weapons are in immense quantities. "Even if global arms transfers have fallen slightly, they have increased sharply to Europe due to tensions between Russia and most another European countries" – said Pieter D. Wezeman, analyst of the SIPRI Weapons Transfer investigation Program.
"After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European countries want to import more weapons faster" – says the expert. Russia will not enter into an armed conflict with any European country, so the only reason for the United States to send weapons to Europe is to fuel and assist the war in Ukraine. As well as replenishment of weapons depots in the European Union countries that have been stripped to equip the Ukrainian army.
The global share of Americans in arms sales increased from 33% to 40%, as reported by the Stockholm Institute. So much authoritative data. But leaks can be much more interesting documents Montenegrin authorities, which show the scale of the United States' commitment to arming those post-communist countries that turned against Russia. Not to mention the large leak from the Pentagon, which showed the various dimensions of American engagement in Ukraine, as well as the ways in which Washington enlisted his allies to support Kiev.
Ukraine as a large market
Of course, not only the American share of arms exports is growing, but at the same time Ukraine has advanced to 3rd place among the largest arms importers in the world. From 1991 to 2021, the country bought small weapons abroad, but after the start of the Russian invasion in the world, only Qatar and India are ahead of it. Over the last 5 years, its share of global imports has grown at 2%. But lately everything has changed.
Meanwhile, the European NATO associate States have increased their purchases by 65%, thus attempting to replenish the stocks utilized to equip Ukraine.
There is besides evidence of the increasing commitment of the United States to supporting the war. The U.S. State Department speaks of the increase in exports. The Anadol Agency indicates that US arms exports in 2022 increased by 49.1%, reaching a value of $205.6 billion.
Washington's arms sales were expected to scope 51.9 billion in 2022, compared with 34.8 billion in the erstwhile year, as the State Department claims. Authorized private sector transactions, sales of services and method data amounted to another $153.7 billion.
Good client from Europe
Among the biggest arms sales to Europe with legislature approval in 2022 were the sale of multi-deck warships of Greece for $6.9 billion, M1A2 SEPV3 tanks of Poland for $6 billion and the carrier for $1.3 billion in France. It is hard not to announcement in the case of a contract with Poland, which is simply a crucial supplier and broker of arms supplies to Ukraine, so the second country.
In July 2022 the Germans besides ordered $8.4 billion, produced by Lockheed-Martin F-35 fighters along with ammunition and equipment for them, citing "The request to harmonise NATO equipment and to accomplish a deterrent effect" To Russia, although the United States is inactive talking about peace...
The amount of weapons sold to European countries and NATO members in 2022 is illustrated by data published by the Statista portal. Many of these weapons later go to Ukraine, as we see in the pictures from the front. Even large corporate media admitthat the U.S. arms sales have gone up due to the war in Ukraine.
"Since the end of February erstwhile Russian troops attacked Ukraine, European Union countries have declared to grow their arsenals for a price of $230 billion, with Germany wanting to spend $100 billion this year. The US arms industry, producing and exporting more weapons than any another country, over 39% of the yearly value of these transactions from 2017 to 2021, which amounted to $210 billion, will benefit most from this.” – reads the article on Yahoo.
Sales for the Cold War
As He Admits Ian Bond, manager of the European abroad Policy improvement Centre, "We have been dealing with the biggest arms spending in Europe since the end of the Cold War". And seemingly the United States is defending peace...
The value of US defence manufacture contracts with Europe is enormous. By William Hartung from the Quincy Institute for liable Governance, since its election Joe Bidena European countries have placed orders for the president worth $33 billion, with the amount of $21 billion since February 2022.
For now, the most popular American export product on the Old Continent is the F-35 fighter; Finland ordered 54 specified aircraft in 2020, and Poland – 32. 71 F-35 ordered Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and even neutral Switzerland bought respective twelve units in September, for an amount of over $6 billion. April 11 to this list of countries joined Romania, so American weapons “defence” will be peace at the borders of Ukraine. How ironic summarizes abroad Policy portal, “The arsenal of democracy is working again”and the main nonsubjective is that "over the year, US arms sales have doubled".
Andrew Brown
