War is a racket.
“US military assistance to partner and allied countries amounted to $13.5 billion in 2015, or 28 percent of all US foreign aid spending that year. Most military grants through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) scheme went to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Iraq.”
The revenues go to arms merchants, the weapons go to foreigners, and the debt and ever after interest expense go to the American public.
So much winning!
Ukraine has great people. Ukraine has 40 percent of the world’s black soil. Ukraine is being dismembered by it gigantic neighbor which also happens to have often been an enemy of the United States.
Of course lots of money from Russia goes to bribing officials and journalists in various countries. It seems to fear our small but very reliable Javelin fire and forget missiles.
The fascist regime in Kiev is incompetent, as is their military.
Providing offensive weapons to these idiots will end badly...for them.
“Russia’s breadbasket.”
Not necessarily anymore. When the Soviet Union went belly up the collectives had a choice to go private. 7% did, the rest stayed some mode of collective. The 7% produce 40% of the Russian farm produce. Last year Russia had an all time record wheat yield and is looking to be the world’s biggest wheat exporter depending upon transportation issues.