Whose military budget is generously funded by Washington?
The US administration has published a report that contains interesting information about funding from the US budget the military component of foreign countries. In this edition howmuch.net a map of the world that draws attention is presented, the outlines of the states on which are plotted not in accordance with the actual territory of these states, but in accordance with how much funds from the American budget for military-technical cooperation programs have been spent on them. About the map a little later.
For obvious reasons, it is impossible to be sure that all the data provided by US officials reflect the real situation with financing for all 100%, but still no one has presented any other data ...
So, if you believe the report of the American administration, it turns out that in the 2014 year, Washington from the state budget sent 35 billion dollars to finance the military component of foreign countries (attention!). For comparison, this is about half of the Russian military budget.
The leader in the list of receiving amounts for military needs from the United States is Israel. From the American budget, according to the American data, about $ 3,1 billion were sent to this country. More than three billion dollars for a country that is not at all distressed! This indicates how strong the very "Jerusalem" lobby, which is present in the most different (including the highest) levels of American power. Apparently, this is a kind of payment for mutual loyalty and for Israel to be, as it has been customarily said for several decades, an American outpost in the Middle East region. Everything “in Jerusalem” is simple: you give us money (other material goods) —we give you at least loyalty, at least an outpost ...
Of course, in a number of other states, they are not averse to reducing relations with Washington to the same formula, but none of these countries has the very lobby in the camp of the US authorities, which Israel has.
That is why the allocation of a very impressive amount of the United States for the defense of Israel is not surprising. But the second position in the list of the states most actively financed by Washington raises many questions. If we look at the report and the map, we find that Egypt is in second place in terms of military funding with 1,3 billion. Suddenly? - Very ...
Here is the map mentioned above:
It is clear that we are not talking about gratuitous financial assistance. The lion's share here is credits and arms supplies, but the highlight is that the Americans will not supply any credits, much less military equipment. They will not, and that's it! Does it mean that Egypt fell for a reason? Is it possible that the answer to the question, why precisely Egypt, is that the current Egyptian authorities are actively supported by US government officials?
But still this is clearly not the conclusion on which to bet in this situation. The fact is that the current Egyptian authorities, headed by President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, found themselves at the helm of Egypt after the dismissal of the American protege Mursi, who represented the so-called "Muslim Brotherhood." It was on the Muslim Brotherhood on Tahrir, as we know, that the rate was made by external "friends of Egypt." Through this radical grouping were transmitted "cookies", which served as the material impetus for the overthrow of Mubarak and attempts to launch Egypt under the Libyan scenario.
Mursi was removed from the presidency in July 2013. Given the fact that the chaos in Egypt fully fit into the American scenario of building “democracy” in a single territory, Mursi’s dislocation did not initially upset Washington. Financing the Egyptian "miracle" has already been laid in the US budget, and therefore did not change anything, expecting that the rebellious general (al-Sisi), proclaimed field-marshal at the beginning of 2014, will be the man who, after Mursi, will continue to spread Egypt on the said Libyan option.
It is worth recalling that at the same time, the attention of the United States was essentially distracted by the situation in Ukraine, which demanded its “cookies”. And, apparently, in Washington it was considered that everything goes according to plan in Egypt - “al-Sisi will bring the matter of liquidation of Egyptian sovereignty to the end,” and therefore did not make any changes to Cairo’s funding. But it turned out that as-Sisi not only took and imprisoned many leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also began to restore order in the country, lost after Tahrir. As a result, it was almost impossible to happen: the seeds of chaos that the American "partners" had planted in Egyptian land were trampled, not without the use of impressive funds allocated by the same Americans. For the US, this is a complete fiasco. In Washington, it would be possible to start tearing your hair if it were not for the warming of the soul (if they are not yet sold ...) by the US authorities that the uninterrupted operation of the printing press ...
When in Washington they came to their senses, continuing, however, to remain in the euphoria of burning Maidan tires in Kiev, the Egyptian authorities had already opened several fronts to combat terrorists who were pocket terrorists for the West. Realizing that the irreparable could happen, Washington began to think about what to do in such a situation. And, considering the fact that lately the Sinai terrorist conglomerate only strengthened its position, it was decided to redirect funding to the “Sinai direction” in order not to completely lose the “conquest of Tahrir”. In this regard, it will be extremely interesting to look at the report of the US administration for the 2015 year already. If at the end of the current year, the financing of the military component of Egypt by the United States does not change in the direction of a clear decrease, then all author's conclusions can be safely sent to the furnace.
PS The map has interesting statistics on the fact that the United States from its budget in 2014, very modestly militarily (only about 4,2 million dollars) financed Ukraine. If this is true, then it turns out that the financing of the war in Donbass primarily came from "extrabudgetary" (for the USA) sources, one of which is the budget of Ukraine itself ...
For obvious reasons, it is impossible to be sure that all the data provided by US officials reflect the real situation with financing for all 100%, but still no one has presented any other data ...
So, if you believe the report of the American administration, it turns out that in the 2014 year, Washington from the state budget sent 35 billion dollars to finance the military component of foreign countries (attention!). For comparison, this is about half of the Russian military budget.
The leader in the list of receiving amounts for military needs from the United States is Israel. From the American budget, according to the American data, about $ 3,1 billion were sent to this country. More than three billion dollars for a country that is not at all distressed! This indicates how strong the very "Jerusalem" lobby, which is present in the most different (including the highest) levels of American power. Apparently, this is a kind of payment for mutual loyalty and for Israel to be, as it has been customarily said for several decades, an American outpost in the Middle East region. Everything “in Jerusalem” is simple: you give us money (other material goods) —we give you at least loyalty, at least an outpost ...
Of course, in a number of other states, they are not averse to reducing relations with Washington to the same formula, but none of these countries has the very lobby in the camp of the US authorities, which Israel has.
That is why the allocation of a very impressive amount of the United States for the defense of Israel is not surprising. But the second position in the list of the states most actively financed by Washington raises many questions. If we look at the report and the map, we find that Egypt is in second place in terms of military funding with 1,3 billion. Suddenly? - Very ...
Here is the map mentioned above:
It is clear that we are not talking about gratuitous financial assistance. The lion's share here is credits and arms supplies, but the highlight is that the Americans will not supply any credits, much less military equipment. They will not, and that's it! Does it mean that Egypt fell for a reason? Is it possible that the answer to the question, why precisely Egypt, is that the current Egyptian authorities are actively supported by US government officials?
But still this is clearly not the conclusion on which to bet in this situation. The fact is that the current Egyptian authorities, headed by President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, found themselves at the helm of Egypt after the dismissal of the American protege Mursi, who represented the so-called "Muslim Brotherhood." It was on the Muslim Brotherhood on Tahrir, as we know, that the rate was made by external "friends of Egypt." Through this radical grouping were transmitted "cookies", which served as the material impetus for the overthrow of Mubarak and attempts to launch Egypt under the Libyan scenario.
Mursi was removed from the presidency in July 2013. Given the fact that the chaos in Egypt fully fit into the American scenario of building “democracy” in a single territory, Mursi’s dislocation did not initially upset Washington. Financing the Egyptian "miracle" has already been laid in the US budget, and therefore did not change anything, expecting that the rebellious general (al-Sisi), proclaimed field-marshal at the beginning of 2014, will be the man who, after Mursi, will continue to spread Egypt on the said Libyan option.
It is worth recalling that at the same time, the attention of the United States was essentially distracted by the situation in Ukraine, which demanded its “cookies”. And, apparently, in Washington it was considered that everything goes according to plan in Egypt - “al-Sisi will bring the matter of liquidation of Egyptian sovereignty to the end,” and therefore did not make any changes to Cairo’s funding. But it turned out that as-Sisi not only took and imprisoned many leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also began to restore order in the country, lost after Tahrir. As a result, it was almost impossible to happen: the seeds of chaos that the American "partners" had planted in Egyptian land were trampled, not without the use of impressive funds allocated by the same Americans. For the US, this is a complete fiasco. In Washington, it would be possible to start tearing your hair if it were not for the warming of the soul (if they are not yet sold ...) by the US authorities that the uninterrupted operation of the printing press ...
When in Washington they came to their senses, continuing, however, to remain in the euphoria of burning Maidan tires in Kiev, the Egyptian authorities had already opened several fronts to combat terrorists who were pocket terrorists for the West. Realizing that the irreparable could happen, Washington began to think about what to do in such a situation. And, considering the fact that lately the Sinai terrorist conglomerate only strengthened its position, it was decided to redirect funding to the “Sinai direction” in order not to completely lose the “conquest of Tahrir”. In this regard, it will be extremely interesting to look at the report of the US administration for the 2015 year already. If at the end of the current year, the financing of the military component of Egypt by the United States does not change in the direction of a clear decrease, then all author's conclusions can be safely sent to the furnace.
PS The map has interesting statistics on the fact that the United States from its budget in 2014, very modestly militarily (only about 4,2 million dollars) financed Ukraine. If this is true, then it turns out that the financing of the war in Donbass primarily came from "extrabudgetary" (for the USA) sources, one of which is the budget of Ukraine itself ...
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