The root cause of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is that the United States and other Western countries continue to use Ukraine to challenge Russia's bottom line of survival, one will engage in color revolution in Ukraine, the other will encourage Ukraine to join NATO, and finally Russia has to send a large army to attack Ukraine, fundamentally prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, and safeguard its strategic depth and national security. After the Russian army entered Ukraine, the United States, a lighthouse country that prides itself on being the embodiment of justice all day long, actually gave up, and also committed three rogue acts without any discipline at all, completely letting the world see the nature of the rogue state of the United States. Today, I will introduce to you the three rogue acts of the United States in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict without any discipline.
First, he was afraid of The Russian nuclear stick and did not dare to provide heavy equipment to Ukraine, but he encouraged other countries to provide heavy equipment to Ukraine all day long. Heavy equipment such as fighter jets, tanks, armored vehicles, and air defense systems play a crucial role in modern conventional warfare and can determine the outcome of a local war. In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine's heavy equipment suffered heavy losses, the prevention and control system was basically destroyed, less than half of the fighters were left, and the tanks and armored vehicles also lost a large part, which was completely inferior in the confrontation with the Russian army. Therefore, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy has repeatedly appealed to the United States and other Western countries that Ukraine needs heavy weapons such as fighter jets, tanks, armored vehicles, and air defense systems, not anti-tank missiles and Stinger missiles, because they simply cannot shoot down Russian fighter jets, and claim that it is enough to provide Ukraine with one percent of the heavy weapons owned by NATO countries.
S300 air defense system
There is no doubt that the United States is the most militarily powerful country in the world today, and it has some of all the heavy weapons that Ukraine dreams of, whether it is fighters, tanks or air defense systems, but it is worried that Russia's nuclear stick has not been easy to provide, but it only provides some stinger missiles, javelin missiles and other light weapons, which cannot play a decisive role in the victory or defeat of the war. But in the face of Ukraine's appeal, the United States has a crooked idea, that is, to encourage others to provide heavy weapons to Ukraine, so that others can offend Russia. First, Poland was encouraged to supply Ukraine with 28 MiG-29 fighters, but Poland was not stupid, saying that there was no problem in providing them, but there were two conditions, one was to give all its MiG-29 fighters to the United States, and the United States provided it with an equal number of F16 fighters; the other was that the MiG-29 fighters were provided to Ukraine by the United States.
Polish MiG-29 fighter
In this way, the balloon was offered to the United States at once, and he could only cheekily reject the Polish offer. The fighter jet thing was not solved, and the idea of an air defense system was started, first rumors that Kazakhstan provided the S300 air defense system to Ukraine, which was directly denied by Kazakhstan. Later, Slovakia was encouraged to provide S300 air defense systems to Ukraine, but Slovakia agreed to it, but put forward a condition, that is, to replace the S300 air defense system with American patriots. The United States felt that this condition was not high, and immediately let its little brothers Holland and Germany provide Slovakia with the Patriot air defense system, but it did not expect that this was a strategy for Slovakia to exchange cages for birds, and after getting the Patriot, it did not mention the S300, and to this day the United States is still trying to persuade Slovakia to provide S300 air defense system to Ukraine.
Patriot air defense system
Second, accuse other countries of not being active in sanctioning Russia, still buying Russian oil and gas, while they are unscrupulously increasing the purchase of Russian oil and gas. Oil and gas is an important foundation of the Russian economy, is Russia's main source of foreign exchange and economic lifeline, in 2021 Russia's exports of oil and gas will earn back more than $150 billion. The United States and other Western countries have seen this lifeblood of Russia and proposed sanctions to ban the import of Russian oil and gas, in a vain attempt to crush Russia's entire national economy. On March 8, US President Joe Biden announced that the United States will ban the import of oil and gas from Russia, followed by the United Kingdom also announced that it will stop importing oil and gas from Russia by the end of 2022, Germany announced that it will stop importing Russian coal and oil in 2022 and Russian natural gas in 2024, and the most radical Lithuania announced that it will ban the import of Russian natural gas from April 2022, becoming the first country in Europe to stop importing Russian natural gas.
Russian gas pipeline
Stopping the import of Russian oil and gas has brought huge losses to the European economy, resulting in a rapid increase in oil prices and electricity prices, which is estimated to lead to a loss of 70 billion euros in Europe, which will seriously affect the development of the European economy. Although many countries have joined the sanctions against Russian oil and gas, there are also many countries that have not joined the sanctions for the sake of national interests, such as India and Pakistan in Asia, Turkey, Slovakia and other countries in Europe, which have aroused strong dissatisfaction from the US government and made harsh criticisms to these countries. But what people don't expect is that the United States is buying Russian oil and gas on a large scale! Mikhail Popov, deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said on April 3 that U.S. oil imports from Russia rose 43 percent a week to 100,000 barrels per day, russia reported on April 4.
Russian oil storage tanks
"The United States has forced Europeans to sanction Russia, and not only has it continued to import oil from Russia, but its imports have soared 43 percent over the past week to 100,000 barrels per day," Popov said. Washington has also approved the import of mineral fertilizer from Russia by its own companies, which it calls a necessity. "What a shameless double-standard act!
Third, with the help of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, we should go all out to sell weapons to the world and make great war gains. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Europe and many countries in the world took the opportunity to increase military spending and expand their armies. In Europe, Germany announced an increase in military spending of 100 billion euros per year, increasing the proportion of military spending in GDP from 1% to 2%; the Polish parliament unanimously passed the Law on the Protection of the Motherland, which increased the proportion of military expenditure to GDP from 2% to 3% from next year, the number of troops increased from the current 110,000 to 300,000 people, forming an armed force of 250,000 regular troops and 50,000 homeland defense forces; Romania announced that it would consider importing F35 from the United States, and Sweden also proposed plans to expand the army. In Asia, Japan took the opportunity to put forward military expansion concepts such as nuclear sharing. In Oceania, the largest "military expansion" in nearly 40 years was announced, with the intention of expanding the Number of Australian troops to 80,000 by 2040.
F35 fighter
At the same time as the expansion of the armed forces in various countries around the world, they have proposed weapons procurement plans, many of which are advanced weapons produced by US weapons suppliers, such as the F35 stealth fighter. Lockheed Martin alone sold 187 F35s worth $28.4 billion, including 64 F35s bought by Finland in February, worth $9.4 billion; Germany bought 35 F35s worth $4 billion in mid-March; and 88 F35s purchased by Canada on March 28, worth $15 billion. At the same time, because Western countries have provided Ukraine with about 17,000 anti-tank missiles and individual anti-aircraft missiles, most of which are Javelins and Stingers produced by the United States, these countries need to replenish their own arsenals after providing them to Ukraine, and the manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have successively received large orders.
Stinger missiles
Driven by these mega orders, the stock price of American arms dealer Lockheed Martin Company rose all the way from $354 per share at the beginning of the year to $453 on March 25, an increase of 28%: Raytheon Technologies rose nearly 20% over the same period. Shares of Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics also rose sharply. There is no doubt that the United States has gained enormous economic benefits in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.