The US Congress has approved $7.1 billion in funding for three Pacific countries in exchange for the opportunity to send troops there. The Financial Times writes about this.
We are talking about countries such as Pallau, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
“The US Congress has passed a bill that will provide funding for key US agreements with Pacific island countries.”– it says in the publication.
It is clarified that the funds were allocated as part of a $460 billion spending package for parts of federal departments.
As the publication reports, the area of the island states themselves is small, but the area of their territorial waters is about four thousand square kilometers. According to the deal, the United States can deploy missiles and long-range radar stations on the territory of the countries, as well as test intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Such a large area of territorial waters of these three countries will allow the United States to gain critical access to the Pacific region, the article emphasizes.
Earlier, on February 14, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States was destabilizing region after region, trying to control the chaos. According to the minister, unhealthy trends are observed in the Pacific region. There, Washington, with the help of its satellites, seeks to introduce not only the logic of bloc confrontation, but also the NATO infrastructure.
