bertsmobile1
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Well Germany has already exceeded the USA and general funding from the EU is also well above the USA.
Total NATO funding is also above the USA and excludes bilatteral & EU aid so the USA is around number 5 which is a bit pathetic for the biggest arms manufacturer in the world and the country with the biggest armoary
Ukraine is shaking off the soviet era corruption that is one of the reasons why Putin invaded because they renationalised the bank so Putin lost his $ 800,000 he was stealing from it every year , sorry, special dividend , not stealing .
Ukraine has moved up 9 places in the corruption index, the biggest yearly anti corruption shift ever since the index was initiated .
The USA by the way is going down .
Next not 1¢ of US aid goes as cash, it all goes as weapons, mostly obsolete weapons that were going to COST the USA to decommission so sending weapons to Ukraine actually saves the USA money and stimulates business INSIDE the USA as all of the arms are manufactured in the USA so it is jobs for Americans not money for Ukrainians.
And on top of that the uSA has monitors in Ukraine checking the inventory to ensure that every bullet gets to where it is supposed to go and they found ZERO corruption .
The Ukrainians will eventually prevail because they believe in what they are doing so will fight to the last man, woman & child .
All the withholding of ammunition is going to do is create yet another country that hates the USA and that my friend is an ever increasing list .
Isolationism did not work in your own civil war ( guess where the weapons came from ? ) and it was not the USA , most came from Europe , The UK ( BSA ) Sweeden ( husqvarna ) and Belgium ( FN ) but go to any civil war museum and only US weapons will be on display and the bulk of the gunpowder was also imported .
Right now the republican silly buggers has just lost Lockhead - Martin $ 16,000,000,000,000 in PROFITS from export orders because a lot of countries have cancelled their orders for HIMARS launchers because the entire world now sees the USA as an unreliable & untrustworthy weapons supplier .
So that 61 billion had a 42 billion profit , note I said PROFIT for Lockhead - Martin built into it from foreign orders .
India has also cancelled their HIMARS launchers and placed orders on France, they have also cancelled their F 35 order .
The French system is not as good as the USA one but they now have orders for 3,500 so that will provide a lot of profit to do a lot of R & D so the French ones will be better than the USA ones .
Rheinmetal & Lockhead have just signed a joint developement for the GIMARS to be built in Germany and all,of the rockets are to be built in Germany so in place of L_M making $ 16,000,000 on every export HIMARS they will only be making $ 4,000,000 on very GMARS and in place of making $ 250,000 profit on every rocket they will make a $ 50,000 royalty , and hat is until the Germans develop their own system .
These are the sort of costs that being an isolationist occur .
And then there will be the retaliation sales lost, Cincinnati Machinery will probably never sell another 5 axis mil to any European factory again .
All of the USA's high value exports go to to Europe and that market will dry up because the USA will be seen as hostile .
