This was mentioned in the movie LORD OF WAR about how it was easier for a country to leave it’s equipment behind and order new stuff back home than to take it home with them.
I remember reading how after WWII the Navy dumped tons of perfectly good equipment into the Pacific Ocean rather than take it back to the US. Most of it was brand new. I’m talking planes, tanks, jeeps, bulldozers, road graders, ect.
” I’m talking planes, tanks, jeeps, bulldozers, road graders, ect.”
And this stuff wasn’t useful to the local populations that had their entire infrastructure destroyed? No this was all about ensuring that the American companies profit after the fact twice, once by selling the equipment to the USG and then by selling another set to the countries that needed to be rebuilt.