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No one is walking out of this on-going military conflict in #Ukraine winning, except American weapons makers.

From Iraq to Afghanistan, every time the U.S. wages a war against another country, American weapons makers put a big tranche of America's spending in their own pockets.
Amid a stand-off with Russia, @politico reported that the U.S. government started to send weapons to Ukraine as early as last August in the amount of 60 million U.S. dollars. #UkraineRussiaCrisis
Reuters @Reuters reported in late January on the arrival of a package of U.S. weapons, along with "lethal security assistance", totaling 200 million U.S. dollars, in the Ukrainian capital. #Kiev #Donbass
The majority of the 2.26 trillion U.S. dollars America spent in the #Afghanistan war went to the bank accounts of the U.S. arms industry. #RussiaUkraineConflict
And just like that, the world doesn't need to do a lot of math before figuring out that U.S. weapons makers are going to—and will be the only ones-- to profit enormously from this #Ukraine conflict. #Donestk #Lugansk

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