TEHRAN (Iran News) –In recent decades and better to say in the recent century, the U.S. has tried to decide for other nations and it has been opposed to the sales of  weapons by other countries to those countries that Washington dislikes them but the U.S. itself at the same time has continued selling weapons to its favorite countries and governments and even to dictator rulers in the world.

In recent years the administrations in Washington have not hidden their ill-intentions of selling arms to countries and nations but at the same time it has shown its opposition against other arms selling countries, in other words, it wants to monopolize the arms sales.

We know that many arms manufacturers in the U.S. are main supporters of the Republican or Democrat administrations and they spend money during the presidential elections campaigns and for this reason the U.S. Administrations try to trigger wars in any part of the world in order that these companies could sell their deadly products.

On Friday, the English daily The Independent in an article criticized the U.S. Administration for selling goods to some certain countries. The daily wrote “Since President Joe Biden came into office in 2021, he has described a “battle between democracies and autocracies” in which the U.S. and other democracies strive to create a peaceful world. The reality, however, is that the Biden administration has helped increase the military power of a large number of authoritarian countries. According to an Intercept review of recently released government data, the U.S. sold weapons to at least 57 percent of the world’s autocratic countries in 2022.”

It added since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s biggest weapons dealer, accounting for about 40 percent of all arms exports in a given year. In general, these exports are funded through grants or sales. There are two pathways for the latter category: foreign military sales and direct commercial sales.

The U.S. government acts as an intermediary for FMS acquisitions: It buys the materiel from a company first and then delivers the goods to the foreign recipient. DCS acquisitions are more straightforward: They’re the result of an agreement between a U.S. company and a foreign government. Both categories of sales require the government’s approval.

Country-level data for last year’s DCS authorizations was released in late April through the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. FMS figures for fiscal year 2022 were released earlier this year through the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency. According to their data, a total of 142 countries and territories bought weapons from the U.S. in 2022, for a total of $85 billion in bilateral sales.

Of the 84 countries codified as autocracies under the Regimes of the World system in 2022, the United States sold weapons to at least 48, or 57 percent, of them. The “at least” qualifier is necessary because several factors frustrate the accurate tracking of U.S. weapons sales. The State Department’s report of commercial arms sales during the fiscal year makes prodigious use of “various” in its recipients category; as a result, the specific recipients for nearly $11 billion in weapons sales are not disclosed.

The Regimes of the World system is just one of the several indices that measure democracy worldwide, but running the same analysis with other popular indices produces similar results. For example, Freedom House listed 195 countries and for each one labeled whether it qualified as an electoral democracy in its annual Freedom in the World report. Of the 85 countries Freedom House did not designate as an electoral democracy, the United States sold weapons to 49, or 58 percent, of them in fiscal year 2022.

These findings contradict Biden’s preferred framing of international politics as fundamentally a struggle in which the world’s democracies, led by the United States, are on “the side of peace and security,” as he called it in last year’s State of the Union address.

According to a new report by Foreign Policy Magazine published on Thursday, American weapons sales to NATO states nearly doubled in number and value in 2022.

With the conflict in Ukraine draining European military stockpiles, the top US arms merchants have all seen their share prices skyrocket.

The US government approved 14 major arms sales to NATO members in 2021, totaling around $15.5 billion, the magazine stated, citing an analysis of Pentagon figures. By the end of 2022, it had approved 24 sales worth roughly $28 billion, RT reported.

While some of these deals were negotiated years beforehand, the Russia-Ukraine war sent NATO’s European members scrambling to bump up their military spending, and to replenish vehicles, weapons, and ammunition donated to the Ukrainian military.

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have all ordered HIMARS Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), the same systems the US has given dozens of to Ukraine. Earlier this month, the US State Department authorized the sale of 116 M1A1 Abrams tanks to Poland, after Warsaw sent its Soviet-era T-72 and domestically-made PT-91 tanks to Kiev’s forces.

Amid the rush to arm Ukraine, European and American arms stockpiles are running low, according to media reports and admissions by top officials. In addition to the arms sold to its allies, the US has also allocated more than $110 billion in military and economic aid to Kiev since February, with approximately $21 billion worth of weapons transported to Ukraine as of December 21.

The unprecedented strain on US stockpiles – Washington had given Kiev a decade’s worth of Javelin missiles by September, for example – has resulted in record profits for the arms industry.

So one can see that Washington prefers war in the world and its claim of mediation or peace-brokering is baseless and this country makes most of wars in the world because it sells weapons and make money.

According to the Independent, in Biden’s first full fiscal year as president, weapons sales from the United States to other countries reached $206 billion, according to the State Department’s annual tally, which uses an opaque but seemingly broader accounting of yearly FMS and DCS figures; Biden’s first-year total surpasses the Trump-era high of $192 billion. The multibillion-dollar effort to train and equip Ukraine doesn’t fully explain the dramatic rise in total arms sales last year, let alone to autocracies. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t occur until five months into fiscal year 2022, and much of the assistance from the United States to Ukraine took the form of grants (not sales) and the transfer of materiel from Pentagon stockpiles through the presidential drawdown authority.

So one should not believe what the U.S. says about peace and mediating for peace because peace makes no money for the Western states and especially for the U.S. and they can make most of any war in any part of the world and we can see it apparently in war in Ukraine as Washington continues fanning the flame of war and even accuse other states of helping Russia in this war.

Therefore, as far as these arms manufacturers are in the U.S. and support the administrations, one should expect at any moment any war in any part of the world as we in our Iranian proverb says death is good for the neighbor and the U.S. does not like other countries to sell weapons because they want to have their own monopoly in this field.