In the 95 billion in spending expected to pass in the coming days from the US Senate and Joe Biden, there is the general allocation of spending and the special. We have a secure image of both. In most cases the money ends up in the US military-industrial complex.
On Ukraine and the replenishment of American weapons stocks. The total amount provided to Ukraine for the purchase of arms will be $13.8 billion. Ukraine will receive more than $9 billion in financial aid in the form of “cancellable loans.” About $17 billion to support Israel. About $4 billion of that would go toward replenishing Israel’s missile defense systems. With Russia reacting immediately.
Nearly $8.1 billion will go to help US allies in the Indo-Pacific region counter China. More than $3.3 billion would go toward submarine infrastructure and development (see AUKUS, US, British, Australian and other submarines vs. China), while an additional $1.9 billion would go toward replenishing US weapons supplied to Taiwan and to other regional allies and another $2 billion directly to Taiwan. Stinger and other anti-aircraft systems are included.
Israel concerns the 16.9 to 17 billion dollars of the aid package.
The special allocation of costs
To be as precise as possible, the bills provide $60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine, including $23 billion to renew US weapons, stockpiles and facilities, $16.9-17 billion for Israel and $8.12 billion for the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan. Along with humanitarian aid comes the figure of $95+ billion.
About $5.2 billion will be given to replenish and expand Israel’s missile and missile defense system (Iron Dome and Davis’s Sling $4 billion and Iron Beam $1.2 billion), $3.5 billion for the purchase of advanced weapons systems, $1 billion to boost weapons production, $4.4 billion for other supplies and services to Israel. There is also about $2.5 billion to support US military operations in the region.
On Ukraine $23 billion will be given to renew US weapons, stockpiles and facilities, $14 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a funding program led by the US State Department that helps train Ukraine’s military and provides equipment and advisory initiatives. More than $15 billion will fund current US military operations in the region, strengthen the capabilities of the Ukrainian military and strengthen intelligence cooperation between Kiev and Washington. About $8 billion in civilian aid, including help to the government of Ukraine to pay salaries. Finally, 1.6 billion dollars will be given to the private sector.
Much of the money for Ukraine will go directly to the US military and industrial complex.
Useful observations
Another 9.2 billion concerns humanitarian aid to Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine, Sudan and other war zones, which are artificially presented as all concerning Palestine. These exclude UNRWA, the main humanitarian aid agency in the Palestinian territories. About 400 million dollars will be given “to combat anti-Semitism” to various NGOs.
There are differences between the final amounts announced and the specific amounts shown. The country and humanitarian aid amounts total $95 billion. Some individual programs have not yet been published extensively.
Separately, the package includes proposals that would allow the U.S. to seize frozen assets of the Russian central bank to rebuild Ukraine and impose sanctions on Iran, Russia and China, as well as provisions that would see the owner of the popular video app TikTok based in China will sell its stake within a year or face a US ban.
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