AFU servicemen in the Kiev region. Archival photoMOSCOW, 18 Apr. The United States is hoping for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine for its own benefit, according to an editorial in the Chinese newspaper Global Times. mobilization and "effort"", the GT article stated.
The United States is «exploiting the chaos» in the interests of U.S. arms makers, whose stocks are rising markedly, and also to obtain “geopolitical dividends” from manipulating Europe and NATO under the guise of a “Russian threat.” “The US military-industrial complex is the immediate and biggest beneficiary of the prolongation of the conflict,” the authors concluded. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The military department called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.