Despite the White House’s rhetoric about supporting global democracy, the U.S. sold weapons in 2022 to 57 percent of the world’s authoritarian regimes.

U.S. arms sales in 2022 exceeded Trump-era highs.

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;

The sales figures do not include the arms flow to Ukraine, as this lethal benefaction is classified military aid and is not to be charged.

While Biden signaled early on that his arms sales policy would be based primarily on strategic and human rights considerations, not just economic interests, he broke from that policy not too long after entering office by approving weapons sales to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other authoritarian regimes.

This move comes from the so-called democratic US president, whose 2020 campaign motto was to call out MBS for what he is, namely a Pharia.

Read the full report by The Intercept here.

As always, please be mindful about how statistics are composed and created. These numbers do not reflect the true account of any given specific topic. We all know to well that governments can withhold, distort or obliterate crucial information to guard their self-centered agenda, with no regard for human rights violations.

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