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Posted on 03/12/2024 8:45:21 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
(Stockholm, 11 March 2024) States in Europe almost doubled their imports of major arms (+94 per cent) between 2014–18 and 2019–23. Far larger volumes of arms flowed to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East in 2019–23, where nine of the 10 largest arms importers are. The United States increased its arms exports by 17 per cent between 2014–18 and 2019–23, while Russia’s arms exports halved. Russia was for the first time the third largest arms exporter, falling just behind France. The global volume of international arms transfers fell slightly by 3.3 per cent between 2014–18 and 2019–23, according to new data on international arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), available at www.sipri.org.
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Having seen these weapons test driven for two years in Ukraine, I’d expect to see significant changes on the arms market in the future. Lots and lots more drones, missiles and cheap, cheap FAB bombs. The market for targets, armor and warships, should collapse.
Difficult to believe UK arms exports have declined when BAe Systems is reported to have a record order book. Its difficult to believe this is due to increased domestic demand either because the UK Government is stubbornly refusing to increase defence spending above 2.3% gdp despite current events.
So if the UK defence budget is remaining stagnant, and yet Britain’s largest defence contractor is currently doing a roaring trade, where are all these weapons going? Are donations to Ukraine not counting as exports? And yet France is doing the same thing?
I don’t see why demand for tanks and mechanised vehicles should go down when they have been in high demand in Ukraine. FPV drones can’t screen or transport infantry as of yet.
Also, demand for warships is unlikely to go down, what will happen (and is happening) is that new warships are being constructed with modular design and flexible mission bays so that they can be configured to act as drone ‘motherships’.
They are also still needed as platforms for missiles and to carry marines.
Incredible high demand for them in Ukraine as replacements for the masses of them being destroyed by cheap drones every day on both sides.
So who is actually paying for these exports?
US taxpayers
But they are still useful. There currently isn’t a better way of supporting advancing infantry or exploiting breakthroughs regardless of the fact drones are a new presence on the battlefield.
whois query for sipri.org"STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE" --- "SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources."Domain: sipri.org
Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
Registered On: 1997-10-16
Registrant Contact State: FL
Country: USAll other data about sipri.org is "redacted for privacy," in the ICANN lingo.
It is interesting that this Swedish entity was registered in Florida. Odd. Interesting. It avoids thereby certain EU reporting requirements for websites and hosting. Interesting that the registrant's further "Florida" info is "redacted" all the while the organization publishes its snail-mail address in Sweden.
Given that currently the US war budget is ten times the Russian war budget, it is amusing to note that France's war budget nears Russia war budget in "official" reporting, while Saudi Arabia spends more, even closer to Russia's though slightly less.
Sounds like war is a far better business opportunity than peace, for which Stockholm's "peace" institute is named.
If true , most sources state their contributions are pitiful compared to Vlads massive manufacturing base , all say they need manpower. The one thing all the money in the world can’t buy- willing men of fighting age….the Ukie average aged soldier is now up past 44 years old, and most all have been pressed into service.
……are you doubling up on those Hopium drugs?
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“So who is actually paying for these exports?
US taxpayers”
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Think again.
Arms sales are a continuance of strong support for the U.S. defense industry and American workers.
Up to 1 million US workers depend on U.S. defense exports for their job security.
“These individuals and the companies they work for represent a part of American entrepreneurship and innovation. And, they also help maintain the United States as the world leader in the defense and aerospace sectors to ensure our armed forces sustain their military edge.”
Officials Describe How Arms Sales Benefit the U.S., Partners
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2435951/officials-describe-how-arms-sales-benefit-the-us-partners/#:~:text=Arms%20sales%20are%20a%20continuance,of%20American%20entrepreneurship%20and%20innovation.
You act like those teen age TicTok-boys with your trolling memes.
It proves you level of high intellect.
Thank you! I'm gratified you enjoy a great meme!
I will add you to the Zeeper Follies Pinglist to make sure you do not miss the newest ones coming!
Ukr West Armour Graveyard, 4th Abrams, 2 Caesars Destroyed, Ukr/West Despair FAB Bombs, Rus Advance
Those five year averages (2014–18 and 2019–23) mask the historic scale of the collapse in Russian arms exports, since the 2022 invasion.
Sales that are included in that 2019–23 time period, are in many cases no longer being delivered (such as deliveries to its biggest customer, India) - they have been diverted to scrapyards in Ukraine instead. There has been a significant reversal in arms flows (mainly parts, like spare engines, and ammo) between Russia and its top arms customers, as Russia buys back previous exports to prosecute the war in Ukraine.
Sanctions, and now direct attacks on Russian production facilities are having significant effects on reducing Russian capacity to produce advanced combat platforms.
The Russian brand for its weapons has been badly tarnished by poor performance in Ukraine. Not only the shockingly bad combat performance against old Western weapons, but also assessments of how reliable of a supplier Russia may be in the future.
The current rate of new orders has declined more than is reflected by those five year averages. Customers are shopping elsewhere. China, until recently Russia’s largest customer, has embarked on a major program to manufacture itself, what it used to buy from Russia. That alone is a disaster to Russian Foreign Military Sales. Its other top customers, such as Egypt, Algeria and Vietnam, are all seeking other options.
From the article: “while Russia exported major arms to 31 states in 2019, it exported to only 12 in 2023.” That will likely continue to contract further in 2024.
The longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the more Russia’s customers will move on to other suppliers for the long term, rather than just pausing orders and deliveries.
There has been an historic collapse of Russia’s arms export industry since the 2022 invasion. As is the case with Russia’s natural gas industry, Putin has squandered away Russia’s customer base, that had taken generations to build.
Think again
It’s still govt spending taxpayer money on weapons not other needs
( to send to a corrupt state that refuses to accept that it is not “ winning” but being used callously to try to weaken Russia by killing Russians at the cost of Ukrainian lives while Americans sit safely at bases far from the battle….. but I digress)
Is this the highest and best use of tax dollars when it is adding to a trillion new dollars of debt every 100 days?
“to try to weaken Russia by killing Russians”
Killing Russians is a secondary effect. The value is in disarming the Russian Government, which is controlled by a violent and aggressive mafia group, on a continuous crime spree.
“Is this the highest and best use of tax dollars”?
Arguably, Defense should be the first priority of the Federal budget.
Russia points more nukes at the USA than any other nation, and frequently threatens Nations that we are treaty bound to protect. A significantly disarmed Russia is in American interest.
>Is this the highest and best use of tax dollars when it is adding to a trillion new dollars of debt every 100 days?<
How DARE you ask that question, you greedy American? </s>
Frenchie and her zeeper pals don’t care if the taxpayers of this country are stripped of every cent we have.
According to a Feb. 2023 report by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), we are funding the salaries of 618,000 Ukrainian educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders.
We are paying to sustain Ukraine’s critical healthcare services, meet its pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people, assist 1.3 million internally displaced persons, provide housing assistance to 4.1 million people, and provide social assistance to 240,000 low-income families and 480,000 persons with disabilities.
We subsidize Ukraine’s small businesses, buy seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers and fund divers who clear unexploded ammunition from the country’s rivers to make them safe again for swimming and fishing.
Americans pay to secure Ukraine’s borders while millions of welfare seeking barbarians and terrorists flood through ours.
But the only thing that matters to zeepers is “Slava Ukraini!”
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I don’t know if I deserve to be on any honorific pro-Western patriot ping-lists quite yet...
Do you really think I deserve so much devotion from you?
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