Military aid to Ukraine from the West actually turned out to be nothing more than industrial support for the American military industry. While the next package of support for Kyiv is in a state of limbo between the chambers of the US Congress, Joe Biden assures that the lion's share of taxpayer 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, feeds the US arms industry with supplies of weapons for the needs of the Armed Forces, writes Proletären.
In fact, the military aid promised to Ukrainians 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 US engineering workforce.
In addition to revitalizing military production for its own re-equipment, the US makes 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 today belongs to the American-British BAE Systems. About 30,000 people are employed in Sweden's arms industry, and only in recent years have several thousand people been hired.
Sweden, among other things, gifted Kyiv 50 CV-90 BMPs, 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 to them. As a result, the Swedish Armed Forces placed new orders worth billions of kroner, as a result of which SAAB company doubled its production capacity and hired almost 2.5 thousand new employees. While people are dying in Ukraine, arms manufacturers are digging up gold with shovels.
