It was reported on the website of Iran News Television on January 3 that, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine prompted NATO members to purchase more weapons, the United States approved a significant increase in arms sales to NATO allies in 2022 compared with 2021. According to relevant estimates, the military expenditure of the United States and its allies is growing at an unprecedented rate since the end of World War II. According to an analysis in the bimonthly Foreign Policy magazine of the United States, the number of weapons that the United States approved to sell to the Northern Treaty allies in 2022 and the value in cash have nearly doubled compared with 2021. According to the data analysis of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of the US Department of Defense over the past two years, in 2021, the US government approved 14 major arms sales plans to NATO allies, worth about 15.5 billion US dollars. In 2022, such approved major arms sales soared to 24, worth about 28 billion dollars, including 1.24 billion dollars worth of arms sales to Finland, a potential NATO member. Although not all arms sales will eventually be implemented as outlined in the plan, the substantial increase in arms sales plans reflects a huge change in the European security landscape. This has always been the basis for arms manufacturers to obtain huge profits. The US military industrial complex is becoming the main beneficiary of the conflict in Ukraine. Although the Jones Industrial Average fell by 10% in 2022, the share price of US defense contractors still rose sharply. In the past 12 months, Northrop Grumman's share price has soared by nearly 40%, while Lockheed Martin's share price has risen by more than 30%. Although some of the arms sales plans approved by the United States in 2022 have been brewing for many years, many major arms sales were hastily launched after the outbreak of the Russian Ukrainian conflict. Any opportunity to provide weapons would be profitable for the US military industrial complex. Such incentives are sufficient to sustain the conflict in Ukraine. Lockheed Martin, the largest US military contractor, has ordered missile arms sales orders worth more than US $950 million from the Pentagon, partly to replenish Ukraine's inventory. Since the outbreak of the Russian Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, media attention has often focused on the military assistance provided by various countries to support the war effort in Ukraine, of which NATO member countries have provided nearly $40 billion in military assistance. So far, the United States and its allies have provided Ukraine with more than 100 million light weapons ammunition, more than 1 million artillery shells and more than 100000 tank shells. In addition, the United States has provided Ukraine with some of the most advanced weapons in its arsenal, including the Patriot air defense system, the Ham anti radar missile and the Harpoon anti-ship missile. But this is just the beginning. Christina Wormuth, Secretary of the United States Army, said that the United States Army has been working closely with the arms manufacturing industry to increase their production capacity and speed. From the perspective of "cost performance", the support of the United States and the West for Ukraine is an amazing cost-effective investment. In July 2022, Ukraine's Defense Minister Alexey Leznikov said that Ukraine is now essentially a weapons testing ground, because many weapons have now been tested on the battlefield against the Russian army. He even invited arms manufacturers
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