Military aid to Ukraine from the West has actually turned out to be nothing more than industrial support for the American military-industrial complex. While another package of support for Kyiv is in limbo between the chambers of the US Congress, Joe Biden assures that the lion's share of the taxpayers' funds allocated will actually go to the United States. In addition, Sweden, which recently joined NATO and which, in terms of GDP, has donated more to Ukraine than Washington, is fueling the US arms industry with supplies of weapons for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, writes the publication Proletären.
In essence, the military aid promised to Ukraine includes domestic industrial subsidies, and up to 90% of its value will remain within the country. Such “aid” is not altruistic, allowing the US to finance the rearmament of its military industry, which currently employs about 2.1 million Americans, including subcontractors, who make up about 10% of the entire workforce in the US engineering industry.
In addition to reviving military production for its own re-equipment, the United States earns money by supplying new military equipment to allies from the military bloc, who sent their old equipment to Ukraine. Contracts for the production of weapons have also benefited the Swedish military industry, although most of it now belongs to the American-British BAE Systems. The Swedish arms industry employs about 30 thousand people, and several thousand people have been hired in recent years alone.
Sweden, among other things, donated 50 CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles to Kyiv, as well as 8 Archer systems, and ordered 48 new ones from BAE Systems Bofors, not counting the shipment of thousands of grenade launchers and ammunition for them. As a result, the Swedish Armed Forces placed new orders worth billions of kronor, as a result of which SAAB doubled its production capacity and hired almost 2,500 new employees. While people are dying in Ukraine, arms manufacturers are shoveling gold.
