China News Service, April 14 (Zhang Mingxin) On the 13th local time, the US government announced to provide Ukraine with additional military assistance worth 800 million US dollars, and the amount of aid to Ukraine has exceeded 2 billion US dollars.
While helping Ukraine to "win people's hearts", while taking advantage of the current situation to make a fortune in war, the US government has been "generously donating money" to Ukraine and "spending money" to Ukraine in units of "hundreds of millions"; but behind the aid, it seems that more money is earned .
Data map: US President Biden.
Provide more than 2 billion US dollars "aid package"
According to Reuters, on the 13th local time, the U.S. government announced to provide Ukraine with additional military assistance worth $800 million, including artillery, artillery shells, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, to enhance Ukraine’s defense capabilities.
The White House said last week that the United States has provided Ukraine with more than $1.7 billion in security assistance since Russia launched the special military operation.
What's in the US $2 billion-plus "aid spree"?
According to incomplete statistics, in addition to the artillery, artillery shells, armored personnel carriers and helicopters provided this time, the United States has previously delivered more than 1,400 "Stinger" air defense systems, 5,000 "Javelin" anti-armor systems, and 7,000 other anti-armor sets to Ukraine. systems, hundreds of Switchblade tactical UAS, 7,000 small arms, 50 million rounds of ammunition, 45,000 body armor and helmets.
Data map: "Switchblade" drone.
Although the White House has said it also plans to provide more than $1 billion worth of humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, water and other supplies, and announced that it will take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
But according to media statistics, throughout March, only 12 Ukrainians entered the United States through the refugee program.
big war windfall
Although the U.S. has "generously donated money" to Ukraine, it is by no means "taken advantage of".
Behind the U.S. military aid to Ukraine, military enterprises have made a lot of money.
According to CNN, the U.S. government asked Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin to speed up production of weapons such as the Stinger anti-aircraft missile and the Javelin anti-tank missile to replenish the U.S. military’s ammunition arsenal.
According to a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden on March 14, the global share of U.S. foreign arms sales has increased significantly to 39%, more than double that of Russia, the world’s second largest arms exporter.
Some European countries, concerned about the worsening situation, have also become arms buyers.
Germany, Denmark, Sweden and other countries have increased their defense spending, and Germany has even set up a special fund for the purchase of arms, which means that arms orders will be sent to the United States one after another.
On February 10, local time, a U.S. plane delivered military aid to Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In addition, the stock prices of major U.S. military-industrial companies have risen sharply in recent times. The U.S. Capitol Hill newspaper described the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as a “good news” for U.S. military-industrial companies.
Shares of Lockheed Martin have surged nearly 25% so far in 2022, while shares of Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics have all risen around 12%.
In these areas, the United States has not forgotten to make a fortune
Oil, natural gas, and coal are where the United States looks forward to another "windfall".
Russia is the world's second-largest oil exporter and also bears more than 40% of the EU's natural gas supply.
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, due to the widespread initiation of severe sanctions against Russia by Western countries, the energy sector has been affected, oil prices have repeatedly broken new highs, and many European countries have experienced energy shortages.
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France became the country that bought the most U.S. LNG in March, according to the latest data released by financial analysis firm S&P Global.
On the other hand, the United States and the European Union have announced the establishment of a joint working group on energy security, and the United States has committed to export at least an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas to the European Union this year.
The New York Times reported that this accounted for about 10% to 12% of U.S. exports for the current year.
A report by the US "Fortune" magazine pointed out that the agreement can triple the US's natural gas exports, and the US LNG industry will be a big winner.
On February 26, local time, at the Medika border crossing between Ukraine and Poland, Ukrainians waited in line to enter Poland.
According to Agence France-Presse, Ukraine and Russia are both important food exporters in the world.
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, global food prices have broken record highs one after another, which may become a disaster above a disaster.
Especially in Africa and the Middle East, where more than 50% of the grain demand comes from Ukraine and Russia, the hunger crisis is imminent.
Despite the concerns of the outside world, the world's "four major grain merchants" have made a lot of money, three of which are American companies.
In the United States Cargill, five people have entered the "500 richest people in the world", and their assets have increased significantly.
The financial sector is where the U.S. has primarily launched attacks on Russia.
It not only excluded some Russian banks from the SWIFT international settlement system, but also froze Russia's foreign exchange reserves.
According to "Fortune" magazine, the United States led its allies to jointly freeze about 300 billion US dollars of foreign exchange reserves in Russia's overseas banks, and easily "into the bag" of a large amount of Russian assets.
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