It does annoy me that basically countries are giving their surpless weapons to Ukraine, only to buy new weapons for themselves. It’s still growing the weapons industry, which is keen to encourage war across the globe, as that leads to money.
Meanwhile Ukraine are receiving weapons not as donations, but bilateral aid agreements. This means that Ukraine is expected to pay them back some day. In reality, Ukraine will likely never be able to pay them back (and even if they can they will be left financially destitute either way) so all that’s going to happen is the debt will be written off. So current governments can fiddle their books and say “yes, we’ve got a deficit, but we’re going to get so much money back in the future!!” only for that debt to be written off. But hey, that’s a future government’s problem.
It does annoy me that basically countries are giving their surpless weapons to Ukraine, only to buy new weapons for themselves. It’s still growing the weapons industry, which is keen to encourage war across the globe, as that leads to money.
Meanwhile Ukraine are receiving weapons not as donations, but bilateral aid agreements. This means that Ukraine is expected to pay them back some day. In reality, Ukraine will likely never be able to pay them back (and even if they can they will be left financially destitute either way) so all that’s going to happen is the debt will be written off. So current governments can fiddle their books and say “yes, we’ve got a deficit, but we’re going to get so much money back in the future!!” only for that debt to be written off. But hey, that’s a future government’s problem.