Since President Joe Biden came into office in 2021, he has described a “battle between democracies and autocracies” in which the U.S. and other democracies strive to create a peaceful world. The reality, however, is that the Biden administration has helped increase the military power of a large number of authoritarian countries. According to an Intercept review of recently released government data, the U.S. sold weapons to at least 57 percent of the world’s autocratic countries in 2022.
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s biggest weapons dealer, accounting for about 40 percent of all arms exports in a given year. In general, these exports are funded through grants or sales. There are two pathways for the latter category: foreign military sales and direct commercial sales.
The U.S. government acts as an intermediary for FMS acquisitions: It buys the materiel from a company first and then delivers the goods to the foreign recipient. DCS acquisitions are more straightforward: They’re the result of an agreement between a U.S. company and a foreign government. Both categories of […]
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme… the more things change, the more they are the same.. Sad! Just goes to show the NRA lobby and DC, Congress and the Whitehouse remain connected. Big bucks! And if the photo and the article has sound facts… fossil fuels remain a big player. Plus ca change.. the $$ aristocrats, for the most part, have little concern for the greater good
It will be important to see this article in context of of the firearms issues here in the US. Both issues are intimately connected.
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Governance in the majority of nations, including the US is a byzantine process and the Presidents are not always fully informed or aware what is unfolding in their territory. That said, Biden could very well have knowledge of this.