According to the UK's Financial Times, a firearms company based in Arizona, USA, signed a $1 billion weapons supply contract with Ukraine in 2022, including 10 million 23mm shells, 56,000 "Hail" rockets, and other large quantities of Soviet-style weapon ammunition.
At that time, Ukraine paid the American company an initial payment of 17 million euros, and then happily looked forward to receiving the munitions. However, to this day, the American arms company has not delivered a single round of ammunition to Ukraine. It cannot be simply concluded that the company is a fraud; mainly because the company did not have the capability but had the audacity to take on the order.
There are many similar cases, including the Canadian Department of Defense's promise to provide 25 LAV-25 wheeled armored vehicles to Ukraine, which also fell through.
What does this situation indicate? It means that you shouldn't believe the loud statements and chest-pounding promises made by Western countries about providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine; those are all empty words. When it comes to actually delivering the supplies, they are all stingy and slow. Especially as the leader of the West, the United States, since President Trump took office, has completely stopped aid to Ukraine, forcing Europe to buy American weapons to then provide aid to Ukraine. If the boss is like this, how can we expect the European NATO countries to generously contribute to aiding Ukraine? It's just a joke.
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