TEHRAN (Iran News) – In the past British colonialist rulers and governments used to employ this strategy of “divide and rule” but in recent centuries, the imperialist U.S. has resorted to the idea of “wage war and rule” and for this reason the U.S. governments usually tend to cause wars and disputes in every region in order to rule and sell their arms which is one of the main source of revenues of this country and its big arms producing companies which are main supporters of the two dominating political parties of the country, namely, the Democrat and Republican.

In the recent decades Middle East and African countries have been the main destinations for the inflows of American arms under different pretexts or breakout of wars, and now it seems war in Ukraine is another destination for American arms sales and the war between Ukraine and Russia seems is not to end soon because of this policy.

In 2021, sales of U.S. military equipment to foreign governments fell 21% to $138 billion s the Biden administration shifts away from some of the more aggressive arms sales practices under former President Donald Trump. But now it seems Biden Administration also wants to return to his predecessors’ policies of selling weapons in order to steer his country out of current turbulent economic situation.

On Monday, the United States gave a green light to the potential sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of munitions to Japan and Singapore. The $900 million package of arms and equipment approved by the U.S. State Department includes advanced missiles for Japan and munitions for Singapore.

The package for Japan would include 150 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) to be installed on the country’s F-35 fighter jets, worth more than $290 million.

Singapore will receive $630 million to supply its fleet of F-15 S-G fighter jets with air-to-air missiles.

Washington has been supplying arms to its allies in the East Asia region mainly under the pretext of countering the influence of its arch-foe China.

Military experts note that Japan’s armed forces and the U.S. military have plotted several times to assist Washington in deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles on the Asian country’s southwestern islands in an attempt to achieve “integrated deterrence” against China.

China has vastly upgraded its military infrastructure in recent years, amid rising tensions with the West over Chinese Taipei, the South China Sea, and military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific.

So Americans easily sell weapons to Taiwan, South Korea and Japan by creating Chinaophobia or North Koreaphobia while the Washington continues its sales in the Middle East through Iranophobia and milking the regional states.

In 2022, the U.S. State Department disclosed military sales figures for the 2021 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30. Sales included $3.5 billion worth of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Australia and $3.4 billion worth of CH-53K helicopters to Israel.

Sales of U.S. military equipment in the prior fiscal year had totaled $175 billion.

The 2021 dip came after high one-time sales of fighter jets and guided missiles in the final year of the Trump administration. Major fiscal 2020 deals included Japan’s purchase of 63 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin accounting for as much as $23 billion of that year’s total.

There are two major ways foreign governments purchase arms from U.S. companies: direct commercial sales negotiated between a government and a company; and foreign military sales in which a foreign government typically contacts a Defense Department official at the U.S. embassy in its capital. Both require U.S. government approval.

The direct military sales by U.S. companies fell 17% to $103 billion in fiscal 2021 from $124 billion in fiscal 2020, while sales arranged through the U.S. government fell 31% to $34.8 billion in 2021 from $50.8 billion the prior year, the State Department said.

The war in Ukraine has marked a new era, rekindling the threat of nuclear war and unleashing global food and energy crises that have sent prices soaring worldwide. But for neighboring countries, long familiar with the threats, the war is provoking something more: a national call to arms.

The Washington post wrote: “Across eastern and northern Europe, polls show strong support for the NATO alliance and faith in the United States to honor mutual defense treaties if the Kremlin — still facing a far more difficult fight than it bargained for in Ukraine — threatens others in the years ahead. But countries living in Russia’s shadow remain unwilling to leave their fortunes to chance. They are moving to rapidly build up domestic military might, while also witnessing a renaissance in civilian readiness that harks back to the darkest days of the Cold War.”

So by creating such a Russiaphobia it is good time for American weapon manufacturers to sell their products to European countries, especially to Ukraine, and it can boost the U.S. economy. American companies of Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin Corp jointly produce Javelins, while Raytheon makes Stingers and they can make most of war in Ukraine.

So one cannot expect the war in Ukraine to end soon because of the philosophy of wage war and rule unless the West, and predominantly the U.S., decides to continue in other region to save Europe from the current economic chaos in the continent.

So people in the region or in anti-West countries are right not to trust the U.S. and its allies because the U.S. cannot quit this wrong habit and nature of its warmongering and all should be vigilant because American weapon manufacturers any moment can push their governments to fall into a wat  in any part of the world for selling their products and filling their pockets.