"Promoting Stability or Fueling Conflict?": Biden’s U.S. Arms Sales Boom, Ukraine to Saudi Arabia

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We speak with national security expert William Hartung about the Biden administration’s unprecedented military spending on Ukraine and the impact of U.S. arms sales on national and global security. Despite Biden’s campaign promises to curb arms sales, Hartung says the administration has followed an “outmoded ideology” that necessitates the U.S. achieve global military dominance through weapons sales. “There’s a lot of money at stake and it shapes policy in ways that are detrimental to human rights and peace and stability,” says Hartung, who also details the influence of the weapons lobby on government policy.

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28 thoughts on “"Promoting Stability or Fueling Conflict?": Biden’s U.S. Arms Sales Boom, Ukraine to Saudi Arabia”

  2. The USA is UN imperialiste coutry, war mongering systeme, et this since 1945, and 90% of the wars to this day Americans are behind all the crime commited in AFRICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, NOW FINISH THE BULLSHIT and start paying all the shit you did to humanity,

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  3. Offramp is obvious: Ukraine gives up Donbass & Crimea & any bids to ever join NATO in exchange for peace & so not to push Russia politically towards China. I didn't come up with this. I heard this was the upshot of what Kissinger said at WEF. Plz protest like never before cuz nuclear war can wipe out all life.

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  4. SEND F-16, F-15, A-10, APACHE, CHINOOK HELICOPTERS, MORE HIMARS, HOW THE HECK THEY EXPECT UKRAINE TO DEFEAT THOSE MURDERERS FROM RUSSIA? THEY WANT UKRAINIANS TO WIN THIS CARNAGE, BUT ALL THEY DO IS TALK AND TALK SEND SOME MONEY, BUT UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS ALIKE KEEP DYING? C'MON MAN, GIVE UKRAINE WHAT IT NEED TO DEFEAT THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT ONCE AND FOR ALL, Saudi Arabia IS A SHITTY COUNTRY LEADERS, BIDEN SHOULD PUT A HECK OF A PRESSURE ON THE MADURO REGIME TO CALL ON ELECTIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARTS AND LIBERATE THE POLITICAL PRISONERS, VENEZUELA WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL TO UNITED STATES FOR THAT, THERE IS ENOUGH OIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS WITH THE CORECT GOVERNMENT THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEMS FOR FUEL IN A LONG TIME, TRUMP DROPPED THE BALL WHEN HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THATCRIMINAL REGIME THAT IT'S STRUCTURED EXACTLY LIKE THE RUSSIAN ONE, THEY ARE A MAJOR DANGER TO DEMOCRACY IN THE AMERICAN CONTINEN, IN FACT IRAN, HEZBLLOAH, RUSSIA AND THE COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS ALSO THE MEXICAN CARTELS ARE ALL IN THERE PLANNING THE DEMISE OF THE US USING THE COMMUNIST /CARTEL STYLE PROPAGANDA OF HATRED TO THE US ITSELF, THAT GEORGE SOROS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON THAT USES CUBAN PROPAGANDA TOTURN YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE FUTURE ENEMIES OF THIS COUNTRY (US) LOOK AT South America, ONE BY ONE THE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ELECTING SOCIALIST GOVERNMENTS, THAT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE, THAT'S THE WORK OF THE CUBAN SOCIALISM-SEMI-COMUNISM OR SHALL I SAY CRIMINAL TYPE REGIMES LIKE NICARAGUA, VENEZUELA,CUBA. THESE PEOPLE UNDER THE PUEBLA CARTEL HAVE BEEN FOOLING THE IGNORANTS WITH FALSE NARRATIVES AND ALSO THEY ARE THE ONES PUSHING MIGRANTS BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TOWARDS THE USA, BECAUSE THEIR ECONOMIES ARE BEEN RANSAKED BY THESE CRIMINALS AND THEY CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION IN THESE COUNTRIES TO PERPETUATE THEMSELVES IN POWER SOMETHING TAKEN OUT OF THE FIDEL CASTRO PLAYBOOK, SO USA NEED TO ACT NOW AND START TO REVERT THESE FALSE NARRATIVES

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  8. Welcome to the Idiots civilization, The white house preparing a nuclear dirty bomb and blame Russia, President Biden I do Understand why they have selected you to become President, and today you have become a Palestinian that needs protection from the deranged ruler. Having more than 7 billions Epsilons on a Economy run By outdated Deltas the results are predictable. Moreover finding someone that can help you is like looking at a educational system that is administrated by slaves send from Afrika to produce cotton that will be consumed by the pigs of the land. You are a victim same as the DONALD Trump another sad story only chosen to follow the rules of the insane elites build an america Embassy in Jerusalem and increase war in the Golan highs. Your economical system is a mess, I do know there is nothing you can do however some wonder if a new Jurassic park could be the best solution for the current world affairs 🌎📡🪐👽

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  9. The US military is a losing team led by losers based on their recent measurable results. Worse our senior officers are often just tools for defense contractors Lloyd Austin comes to mind. The SECDEF is actually a Raytheon salesman. Lloyd is very extreme and radical.

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  10. So congress needed a slap in the face from Soudies to consider stopping arm sells there. Remarkable. It seems the only thing that would stop us selling arms is for countries to deny us their oil.

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  13. Mad Joe is fanning the flames of conflict and war in Ukraine. Many past US presidents have done exactly the same to benefit the US military industrial complex. This is no military AID to Ukraine but a debt for armaments – let no one be misled.

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  21. Nice two steps to cutting off arms sale to SA after the bully act and pandering didn't work. Write a book on why arms sale is a bad thing and start with SA! How many bases do you have outside the borders? Pls take care of your citizens and stop putting your defend democracy abroad BS. Tell me one instance of success in your endeavours to that goal over the last 50 years.

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