The situation in Russia and Ukraine has been heating up in the past two days. The leaders of the G7 group led by the United States have held another meeting, promising to continue to increase aid to Ukraine. The continued increase in both sides has made the wave of conflict between Russia and Ukraine higher and higher.
But, do you know? This battle between the United States and Russia, which seemed to be in , was in trouble, and both sides suffered losses, actually made a lot of money on !
Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Army Keane publicly admitted in an interview that "it only spent 66 billion US dollars to force Ukraine and Russia to go to war, no matter how you look at it, it is very cost-effective."
It is understood that since February this year, the United States has successively provided Ukraine with aid worth $66 billion. Although this money seems to be a lot, almost none of them have walked out of the United States' door.
As we all know, the United States is a major military-industrial power, and it just takes advantage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to dump excess military-industrial weapons. This 66 billion US dollar aid to Ukraine should have entered the pockets of American arms dealers.
Keane also said that if the United States goes directly to war with Russia, the government's fiscal budget will exceed and , and as the US agent of the war in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine spends only about 1% of the US fiscal budget this year, which is indeed a good business for the United States.
Compared with the money earned by the United States from Europe, military aid is even more worthless. According to the preliminary budget, in the first two quarters of this year alone, the United States has made 50 billion US dollars in Europe.
In terms of energy, the proportion of natural gas imported from Europe from the United States jumped from 19% to 60%. While the import volume rose exponentially, the price also rose exponentially. The peak was already ten times the price in the same period last year.
In the first half of 2022 alone, American natural gas energy providers made $545 billion from Europe, and at that time the United States only provided $1 billion to Ukraine. This 98% profit can be said that after the United States has eaten and drunk enough, Ukraine only licked the bottom of the bowl.
In terms of grain exports, before the war, Russia and Ukraine wheat exports accounted for 533% of the world's , and sunflower seed oil exports accounted for 576% of the world's . The Russian-Ukraine war began, and Ukraine's thousand miles scorched earth grain output was severely damaged. Although the war failed to spread to Russia's mainland, Russia's grain exports were also hit hard due to sanctions from the United States, Europe and other countries.
But the Russian-Ukrainian war gave Americans another opportunity to make money. According to Reuters , the pre-tax profit of core agriculture and rapeseed industry in the second quarter of this year only increased from .57 billion in the same period last year to 1.12 billion . After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States' grain exports rose sharply.
Americans didn't have time to wipe off the fat from their mouths and hurriedly accused Russia of being ugly in their eyes.
The US "Business Insider" website has conducted an analysis and it is expected that Russia will earn up to 285 billion US dollars through exporting energy this year. The revenue of will increase by 20% compared with 2021. It is equivalent to earning .8 billion US dollars a day on average.
Indeed, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has caused a surge in international energy prices. Coupled with EU 's own dependence on Russian energy and the continuous purchase of Russian energy in China, India and other countries have led to Russia making a lot of money in energy exports.
Some friends may not understand that modern warfare is actually a money-burning game, with a shell, an tank, and an airplane ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars. Why do the United States and Russia become richer the more they fight?
Although both the United States and Russia have obtained a lot of funds in this war, the way they make money is essentially different.
Let’s talk about the United States first. The United States started out in the World War II period. It was the military factory of all countries around the world. Yes, you heard it right. Before Japan's attacked Pearl Harbor , the United States sold weapons to the allies and the Axis countries at the same time. So this time the United States sends weapons and equipment to Ukraine, which is his official position.
also has the "agent war" in the United States, Xinhua News Agency July, the US "interceptor" website reported that from 2017 to 2020, the United States carried out at least 523 "agent wars" around the world through secret projects, of which at least 514 occurred in Middle East and in the Asia-Pacific region. Of course, this latest time was in Ukraine.
The advantage of "agent war" is that it can not only promote the development of its own arms enterprises, but also ensure the safety of American soldiers. The maximum rights and interests are obtained at the lowest cost, and to a large extent avoids condemnation from international public opinion.
In comparison, Russia makes money more than "original"
In this Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia is known as the world's second military power, but in terms of war, the fighting nations "work themselves". The price of Russia's hand-to-hand combat in person is to directly bear the losses of the war. GDP Russia, which is not optimistic, should not be able to bear it.
However, Russia, which has a vast land and wealth, is an absolute energy power. He has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves, the eighth largest oil reserves and Europe's largest oil shale reserves, and he is also the world's largest natural gas exporter. This resource-rich country can exploit and export raw materials at a cheap price.
With the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, all parts of the world will be in panic. The prices of energy such as oil and natural gas and commodities have risen sharply. Russia has benefited from the sanctions of the energy sector. Russia is striding on the road to wealth in this energy " hunger marketing ".
Russia's grain has also ushered in a bumper harvest this year. Last year, the total amount of Russian grain was .12 billion tons of , and this year it reached .15 billion tons of , which means that Russia's grain production increased by more than 20% throughout the year.
Although Russia is still subject to Western sanctions in terms of food exports, things have turned around in September this year. At the Russian Oriental Economic Forum , the topic of China-Russia agricultural cooperation has become one of the hot topics.
You should know that Russia's grain is in a hurry to export, and my country is another major grain importer. With the unjust sanctions imposed by Europe and the United States on Russia's grain exports, resulting in serious fluctuations in world food prices, China-Russia cooperation undoubtedly injects a shot of a turbulent grain market.
Of course, Russia will also make a big profit because of this.
Stately, Russia and Ukraine have started fighting, and it has long been not just a firepower confrontation on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, but more of it is the "economic competition" held by the United States and Russia. The United States and Russia have already begun to compete in the economic field.
The United States, carrying European allies, smashed the stick of economic sanctions to Russia and blocked Russia's energy exports.
The Nord Stream pipeline was blown up. Everyone said they didn’t know who did it, but the happiest thing was the United States, and European pro-American countries pretended to be confused with their understanding. Putin The sentence "Whoever benefits will do it" completely tore off the "emperor's new outfit" of the Americans in front of European countries.
Indeed, Americans do not want Europe to be swaying and ambiguous between the United States and Russia. The damage to the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline will make it easier for the United States to flee from Europe while the Russian economy suffers huge losses.
The United States has Zhang Liang's plan, and Russia has a wall ladder. The recent "OPEC+" meeting held by
is a counterattack from Russia against the United States. Members of the Petroleum Export Organization and an alliance of non-OPEC oil-producing countries unanimously decided to reduce oil production, successfully countering the "chaotic situation" caused by the United States in the global energy market.
Although the United States and Europe continue to compete in this war, they both won. The only loser is Europe.
Europe's low-priced long-term natural gas supply promise was replaced by new expensive natural gas contracts, and the large amount of natural gas bound to US dollars entered Europe, causing the US dollar to further compress the mobile space of euro . The production and living standards of European people have dropped sharply, and a large number of enterprises have fled, and everyone is facing the dilemma of not being able to keep warm in winter.
Now the G7 Group Leaders' Meeting decided to support Ukraine. I really don't know who the Europeans are fighting for. Perhaps Biden will be moved to tears when seeing the European people spare no effort to contribute to their "American Dream".
article: Donghao
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