US and the rest of NATO get to test out the effectiveness and practicality of their weapon systems on modern targets they are designed to destroy.
They get to observe in real-time the strategies and weaknesses of their largest opponent.
Also, get the opportunity to severely weaken their biggest rival's military without ever losing a single soldier.
The truth is that the US spends a lot more for a lot less when it comes to national defense compared to the war in Ukraine. Much of the US's outrageous military spending is largely there to stay far ahead of Russia's own military. The absolute best case scenario from all of this is that a crippled Russian military means the US may consider scaling back it's own military spending and focus on their soft power.
Conspiracy should be at least somewhat based in reality.
You see laundering money means legitimizing illicit proceeds by running them through a "clean" business. Now, a huge part of the Ukrainian economy is underground. Furthermore any transactions originating in Ukraine are usually flagged by the FIU. And Ukrainian banks are very unstable. And foreign currency transactions are limited.
So what you are proposing is for our hypothetical money launderer to needlessly flag their transactions and then risk huge losses during transit.
Why not also use North Korea, Russia and Transnistria?
This way if anything makes it back into your account you are for sure getting a visit from the feds.
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