MOSCOW, May 4. The protracted crisis in Ukraine has weakened Kiev's support from Western allies, and without economic arguments to continue military aid, the flow risks drying up, columnist Leonid Bershidsky wrote in an article for Bloomberg. «Military assistance to Kiev in 2022 amounted to about 5.3 percent of all US defense spending. Most of this amount leaves the country in the form of US-made equipment, which supports the local labor market,» the statement says. publication.
In confirmation, the author pointed to the data of experts from the American research organization RAND.
«Ukraine stimulates the American defense industry and, ultimately, the American economy. In the long term, this expands the US's ability to produce a variety of products — from shells to air defense missiles,» they noted.
Bershidsky stated that the reduction of Russia's presence in the European energy market opened up the opportunity for the States to occupy the vacant niches for exporting their own raw materials.
While there are more opponents of military assistance to Ukraine in the United States and Europe, the authorities can only explain what commercial benefits can be learned from the support of the conflict, the journalist concluded.