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The article doesn't mention that a lot of this is Lend Lease and Ukraine will eventually have to pay the money back to the US.
Lend-lease ultimately brought the British Empire to its knees. The UK's lend-lease debt is still on the books today, nearly eighty years later.
Ukraine, being the worst performing country economically from 1991 onwards, has absolutely no chance to ever pay off this debt. The country is already being divided up by Blackrock to milk for what little more it has to give.
Oh, so they're being enslaved?
Indebted would be the accurate word.
You think they should get things for free? If you want a 500000$ missile, you better be able to pay for it. Wishes and thanks don’t pay the bills or put food on the table.
I’m all for removing idiotic export restrictions to Ukraine, they should be able to purchase anything they need, but if they don’t want to pay, that’s theft.
@library_napper no, like @broface says, I think they are becoming extremely indebted, and the debt will last for several generations.
It took the UK until 2006 to pay off its Lend Lease debts to the US after World War II.
Ukraine is not as prosperous.
unless youre willing to provide billions for free ffs 🙄
This is the best summary I could come up with:
U.S. defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), General Dynamics (GD.N) and others expect that existing orders for hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, hundreds of Patriot missile interceptors and a surge in orders for armored vehicles expected in the months ahead will underpin their results in coming quarters.
We're working ahead of schedule to accelerate that production capacity up to 85,000, even as high as 100,000 rounds per month," Jason Aiken, General Dynamics' chief financial officer, said on a call with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday.
The General Dynamics' Combat Systems unit, which makes armored vehicles, tanks and the artillery Ukraine uses, saw its revenue rise almost 25% versus the same period a year ago.
Biden mentioned Patriot missiles made in Arizona, and "artillery shells manufactured in 12 states across the country," naming Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas.
To be sure, executives from several defense firms at a recent trade show cautioned that a lack of skilled labor and supply chain issues continue to hamper companies' capacity to fill orders.
Lockheed on Oct. 17 said supply and labor disruptions are affecting divisions like aeronautics, which makes the advanced F-35 fighter jet, due to the need for processor assemblies, solid-rocket motors, castings and forgings.
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Here we go, the true goal fornthe support of this battle for "human rights and democracy"
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