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Source: Independent Sentinel
US Arms Sales Are Hitting Record Highs
By M Dowling | January 30, 20240
Lots of opinions in this article
US weapons sales overseas rose sharply last year, reaching a record total of $238bn (£187bn), as Russia's invasion of Ukraine stoked demand, reports the BBC.
In addition to child sex and drug trafficking at the border, the US is a big arms dealer, enriching highly influential US war-oriented corporations.
The US State Department reported that the US government directly negotiated $81bn in sales, a 56% increase from 2022.
Poland spent $12 billion on rocket systems, air-missile defense battle command systems, and Abrams tanks.
Meanwhile, Germany spent $8.5 billion on Chinook helicopters. Bulgaria paid $1.5bn for Stryker armored vehicles, and Norway bought $1 bn worth of multi-mission helicopters.
Retirement
The Czech Republic bought $5.6 billion in F-35 jets and munitions.
When do arms sales become a sign of pro-war policies?
Allegedly, countries are not buying from Russia, hurting their sales.
"The Russian defense industry is failing and continues to fail," Mira Resnick told Politico, adding that Russian weapons manufacturers are being “denied the resources that come from exports," such as cash.
Do you think this next clip with Gregory Mannarino is right? I really don't know the answer.
Please go to Independent Sentinel to continue reading.
Policymakers in Washington think, if the matter of disappearance of weapons and Western aid to Ukraine is investigated, it would result in "huge embarrassment" to Joe Biden and some of his top-aides.
NOURNEWS- The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari said that weapons from the raging war between Russia and Ukraine are now slipping into the Lake Chad Basin region. He continued and said: the Russia/Ukraine conflict and other violent situations in the Sahel region of West Africa had compounded the Boko Haram terrorism in the Lake Chad Basin region.
He said: though a lot had been done to decimate the strength of the Boko Haram terror group and other violent extremist groups in the region, terrorist threats still persist.
The main question is; why there are weapons from Ukraine in Africa, West Asia and other regions of the world?
Even western countries supplying weapons to Ukraine are seriously concerned about such cases. Reselling weapons abroad to Europe (Sweden, Poland and Romania) and Africa is becoming a common practice in Ukraine.
While the US and its allies are enthusiastically looking for strengthening and supporting Volodymyr Zelensky's war against Russia, weapons and military hardware worth billions of dollars are continuing to flood black markets in Ukraine and are leaking into other parts of the world. Since the start of the Ukraine war, shipments of weapons from the West have drastically intensified, although the Pentagon has recently admitted that a large volume of the military aid has vanished.
The US officials claim they are unable to audit Ukraine-bound weapons once they leave Poland. But Washington is unwilling to disclose a dangerous fact, Zelensky, the president of Ukraine himself is directly involved in selling weapons in the transnational black market, while in Kyiv, people are also talking about secret financial links between the president of Ukraine and the members of the Biden family, including Hunter Biden. Policymakers in Washington think, if the matter of disappearance of weapons and Western aid to Ukraine is investigated, it would result in "huge embarrassment" to Joe Biden and some of his top-aides.
According to media reports, as late as December 2022, top Western officials have complained about this, including the Pentagon’s Deputy Inspector General for Investigations James R. Ives, who admitted that the US is aware of the lack of effective mechanisms to track Ukraine-bound NATO weapons. Several major US media have called for the Biden administration to send investigators to audit and oversee the use of more than US$110 billion in US military and economic "aid" to the Kyiv regime.
A large segment (more than 60 percent) of the weaponry sent to Kyiv by the Western countries is ending up in Africa and the Middle East, through transnational smuggling rackets. It may be mentioned here that corruption is endemic in Ukraine, but ever since the NATO-backed coup in 2014, it has worsened dramatically as the political West started showering the already crooked politicians and bureaucrats with tens of billions of dollars. Everyone from the managers of military warehouses, company and battalion commanders, top military officers, directors of the Kyiv regime's military-industrial complex to the defense minister himself, are engaged in essentially stealing NATO-sourced weapons and then reselling them on the Darknet. The list of those involved also includes the office of the president, the cabinet of ministers, security services and military intelligence.
Until recent years, the massive stocks of Soviet-era weapons in Ukraine were the main source of smuggled weapons. However, despite inheriting approximately 30 percent of the Soviet military, Ukraine somehow managed to expend most of it, much of it ends up on the black markets around the globe. The political West was aware of this, as NATO had a major role in reselling the weapons to terrorist groups, they support in many of the targeted countries. And yet, they still went ahead and provided tens of billions in Western weapons and munitions to the same people smuggling their own for decades.
Media reports claimed there is even fierce competition among Kyiv regime institutions for the right to control the extremely profitable arms smuggling business. This includes various intelligence services, such as the SBU and GUR. The latter is the main military intelligence agency which is supposed to play a major role in overseeing the transfer and distribution of NATO weapons. Thus, GUR has a substantial head-start in the arms smuggling scheme, which is causing a lot of envy and frustration in the SBU. Since August 2020, Kirill Budanov has been the head of GUR, it's worth to mention that he is a close ally of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Please go to Nournews to continue reading.
When do arms sales become a sign of pro-war policies?
"The Russian defense industry is failing and continues to fail," Mira Resnick told Politico, adding that Russian weapons manufacturers are being “denied the resources that come from exports," such as cash.
Do you think this next clip with Gregory Mannarino is right? I really don't know the answer.
Please go to Independent Sentinel to continue reading.
Ukraine and NATO are the main smugglers of western weaponry to terrorist groups
September 10, 2023
NOURNEWS- The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari said that weapons from the raging war between Russia and Ukraine are now slipping into the Lake Chad Basin region. He continued and said: the Russia/Ukraine conflict and other violent situations in the Sahel region of West Africa had compounded the Boko Haram terrorism in the Lake Chad Basin region.
He said: though a lot had been done to decimate the strength of the Boko Haram terror group and other violent extremist groups in the region, terrorist threats still persist.
The main question is; why there are weapons from Ukraine in Africa, West Asia and other regions of the world?
Even western countries supplying weapons to Ukraine are seriously concerned about such cases. Reselling weapons abroad to Europe (Sweden, Poland and Romania) and Africa is becoming a common practice in Ukraine.
While the US and its allies are enthusiastically looking for strengthening and supporting Volodymyr Zelensky's war against Russia, weapons and military hardware worth billions of dollars are continuing to flood black markets in Ukraine and are leaking into other parts of the world. Since the start of the Ukraine war, shipments of weapons from the West have drastically intensified, although the Pentagon has recently admitted that a large volume of the military aid has vanished.
The US officials claim they are unable to audit Ukraine-bound weapons once they leave Poland. But Washington is unwilling to disclose a dangerous fact, Zelensky, the president of Ukraine himself is directly involved in selling weapons in the transnational black market, while in Kyiv, people are also talking about secret financial links between the president of Ukraine and the members of the Biden family, including Hunter Biden. Policymakers in Washington think, if the matter of disappearance of weapons and Western aid to Ukraine is investigated, it would result in "huge embarrassment" to Joe Biden and some of his top-aides.
According to media reports, as late as December 2022, top Western officials have complained about this, including the Pentagon’s Deputy Inspector General for Investigations James R. Ives, who admitted that the US is aware of the lack of effective mechanisms to track Ukraine-bound NATO weapons. Several major US media have called for the Biden administration to send investigators to audit and oversee the use of more than US$110 billion in US military and economic "aid" to the Kyiv regime.
A large segment (more than 60 percent) of the weaponry sent to Kyiv by the Western countries is ending up in Africa and the Middle East, through transnational smuggling rackets. It may be mentioned here that corruption is endemic in Ukraine, but ever since the NATO-backed coup in 2014, it has worsened dramatically as the political West started showering the already crooked politicians and bureaucrats with tens of billions of dollars. Everyone from the managers of military warehouses, company and battalion commanders, top military officers, directors of the Kyiv regime's military-industrial complex to the defense minister himself, are engaged in essentially stealing NATO-sourced weapons and then reselling them on the Darknet. The list of those involved also includes the office of the president, the cabinet of ministers, security services and military intelligence.
Until recent years, the massive stocks of Soviet-era weapons in Ukraine were the main source of smuggled weapons. However, despite inheriting approximately 30 percent of the Soviet military, Ukraine somehow managed to expend most of it, much of it ends up on the black markets around the globe. The political West was aware of this, as NATO had a major role in reselling the weapons to terrorist groups, they support in many of the targeted countries. And yet, they still went ahead and provided tens of billions in Western weapons and munitions to the same people smuggling their own for decades.
Media reports claimed there is even fierce competition among Kyiv regime institutions for the right to control the extremely profitable arms smuggling business. This includes various intelligence services, such as the SBU and GUR. The latter is the main military intelligence agency which is supposed to play a major role in overseeing the transfer and distribution of NATO weapons. Thus, GUR has a substantial head-start in the arms smuggling scheme, which is causing a lot of envy and frustration in the SBU. Since August 2020, Kirill Budanov has been the head of GUR, it's worth to mention that he is a close ally of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Please go to Nournews to continue reading.
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Escalation:
The US is arming every country it can for the coming conflict:
More:
There are even reports US weapons are ending up in Iran:
Those MIM-104A US Patriot missiles sold to Ukraine were used by the psychopaths in Kiev to shoot down the IL-76 Russian transport carrying 64 Ukrainian POWs and the Russian crew of 10. What investigators want to know is were Ukrainians operating those Patriot missile systems or were Americans?
Related:
It is now being reported the US is going to have their proxies in Kiev go to full asymmetric (terror) war against Russia. It has been very well articulated how the US (and the West) "has no viable strategic analysis as such to wage war against Russia", so NATO and the US revert to terror.
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The big picture indicates the US bit off more than it can chew:
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