The
U.S. Air Force has announced that it is ordering AMRAAM missiles worth $1.15
billion from Raytheon Missiles and Defense to supply to Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense reported on June 20.
There were many opportunities to rehabilitate and allow Russia to participate in the world as a peer but that went against the US need for an enemy and to dominate them
Germany was actively buying and expanding their gas imports from Russia, Russia’s largest export good. Germany was quite happy with this arrangement until Russia invaded Ukraine, cut gas exports, and started actively bragging about how they would freeze Europe. Russia could have continued raking in the piles of cash from their gas exports to Europe, but, that isn’t what Russia wanted. Russia didn’t want to participate on the world stage as an equal, they wanted to dominate Ukraine and take what Ukraine had for themselves.
Germany was actively buying and expanding their gas imports from Russia, Russia’s largest export good. Germany was quite happy with this arrangement until Russia invaded Ukraine, cut gas exports, and started actively bragging about how they would freeze Europe. Russia could have continued raking in the piles of cash from their gas exports to Europe, but, that isn’t what Russia wanted. Russia didn’t want to participate on the world stage as an equal, they wanted to dominate Ukraine and take what Ukraine had for themselves.