The sale of United States military equipment to foreign governments in 2024 surged 29 percent to a record $318.7bn, the US State Department said, a figure that includes the sale of jet fighters worth $18.8bn to Israel despite the country facing allegations of genocide in Gaza.
US weapons sales figures from the Biden administration’s final year were released on Friday, coming amid rising global instability and regional tensions.
Sales approved in 2024 included but were not limited to $23bn in F-16 jets and aircraft upgrades to Turkiye’s military, $18.8bn worth of F-15 fighter jets to Israel, and $2.5bn in sales of M1A2 Abrams tanks to Romania.
Russia can retreat to their own borders at any moment. Until then, we will continue to support Ukraine to defeat the invader.
And once you lot run out of Ukrainians you’ll support war elsewhere and find new justifications for it because that’s what you do.
Is this you peoples mantra
Yes. But I also think that it’s been left to smoulder on purpose. The western allies have all the firepower needed to push this invasion back. This trickle of weapons and support isn’t stupidity or poor supply chain. It’s malicious. It does not allow Ukraine to win, just to hold on. Ukraine should be getting all the support and more to help her stop bleeding.
I thought it was travesty of incompetence. But I am sure it isn’t as the US, UK and France and others don’t seem to lose supply when weapons are needed elsewhere and being bought.
Ukraine should be given everything she needs to gain independence. I fear she is being used and being setup to create a long term weapons market.
Sounds like ww3
It’s a variety of factors. With the biggest one being leaders worried that burdening their own people would just get the entire thing canned. If you talk about cutting social programs or raising taxes, people are going to get pretty pissy real quick. Leaders want to give as much as they can, without having to entertain ideas like that. To not actually enter a war footing economically. Some countries have done more than others, Poland and the Baltics come to mind. They have known the horrors of Russia for a long, long time. And they have given quite a bit to keep those horrors as far away as possible.
There is, of course, the very real threat of nukes. Where if one doesn’t boil the frog, the frog will lash out. Again, I think the pace is much too slow. Though, there is active talk of sending western troops to Ukraine and Trump has threatened to up the arms transfers and sanctions dramatically if Russia does not submit. It’s looking like that might be exactly what happens as I don’t see Putin backing down.
And to the point you directly bring up, there are absolutely people doing exactly that; people who want Russia to step on every caltrop possible instead of decisively forcing them to stop walking, thus inflicting less pain on Russia.
The reason is not singular, the reason is all of the above and many more.