US weapons exports up 50 percent in 2023 as Washington challenges Russia, China

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“The Russian defense industry is failing and continues to fail,” Mira Resnick, who runs the State Department’s Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers, said in an interview. Beating Russia in the arms market is part of a wider effort to isolate Moscow and its manufacturing capacity, to weaken its forces arrayed against Ukraine. Russia has for decades been the world’s second-largest arms exporter after the U.S. and its chief customers have been India, China and Egypt. But its defense industrial capacity has been strained by the war in Ukraine, and its role as a major global arms supplier is...