For Years, the US administration has been claiming that the
country’s foreign policy is centered on human values like democracy, peace,
freedom, and respect to other nations.
However, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
recently published a detailed report which concluded that the US arms companies
play a substantial role in shaping the country’s foreign policy.
The Institute suggests that of 10 top American think-tanks
which are active in foreign policy sphere, all of them receive financial
support from American firms including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop
Grumman etc.
In this regard, Atlantic Council and Center for Strategic and International Studies receive more than
a million US dollars from these companies annually.
The issue clarifies why most of American well-known
think-tanks support the selling of arms to Ukraine, which is not the whole
story.
According to the Quincy Institute report, more than 85% of the
US media is in the long list of the recipients of the funds. The issue which
unveils the fact that the US arms firms justify their inhuman aims by using the
research and media tools.
Although different reports also refer to the fact that US arms’
firms use lobbyists for every member of the US Congress to advance their
agendas in a desired way.
In this
vein, it is not surprising to see that the US foreign policy has created
historical catastrophes like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
It is noteworthy that in the midst of the Ukraine war, the
executive manager of the US firm Raytheon Technologies clearly said, “Geopolitical
tensions of Eastern Europe carry profitable income opportunities for the
company”.
From this perspective, it is fair to say that behind the well-designed
foreign policy are the policy carvers which meet their goals at the expense of
US citizens.
This once again confirms the fact that the distance between
declared and practical goals of the US foreign policy is from the earth to the
sky.
