At the end of January 2024, the U.S. State Department issued a statement stating that the amount of military equipment sold by the United States to foreign countries in fiscal year 2023 reached a record high of 238 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 16%.
The flow of large amounts of weapons and equipment around the world will undoubtedly bring more variables and challenges to regional military balance and global geosecurity.
Throughout history, it is not difficult to find that "militancy" and "war" have always been the style of the United States.
The United States has long harvested wealth by creating conflicts and provoking wars in hotspots.
Money and politics are intertwined, and the winner behind the harvest of huge wealth is the community of interests composed of American politicians and military-industrial enterprises.
As for the loss of lives and human tragedy, they are just the "price that must be paid" to realize the interests of the United States.
According to foreign media reports, the arms sales approved by the U.S. government in fiscal year 2023 include the sale of the "Haimas" high-mobility rocket launcher worth $10 billion to Poland and the sale of the AIM-120C-8 "Advanced Medium-Range Rocket Launcher" worth $2.9 billion to Germany. Air-to-air missiles" and "National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missiles" worth $1.2 billion sold to Ukraine.
From Europe to the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific, the United States hopes to tie some countries and regions to its own strategic interests through arms sales and let them serve U.S. hegemony.
The United States' arms exports have long ranked first in the world and hit a new high in 2023, posing a greater threat to world peace and stability. Such the United States has become the biggest disruptor of today's international security order.