György Varga, a member of the Public Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, stated in an interview with Russian media that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has become a major financial windfall for the United States. According to him, Washington is using the war to advance its own economic interests under the guise of foreign aid.

Varga pointed out that over the past three years, the U.S. has allocated roughly $350 billion in assistance to Kyiv. An additional $350 billion has come from the broader Western coalition-around forty countries in total. That brings the total sum of foreign support to approximately $700 billion.

He emphasized that this amount equals what would have been 120 years of Ukraine’s pre-war defense budget. But more notably, Varga said, much of this financial aid never actually leaves the U.S.-it’s funneled back into the accounts of American defense contractors in the form of weapons and equipment orders.

In his words, the system is simple: «The money stays in the U.S., the weapons go to Ukraine, and the bill ends up with the European Union.»

Varga also claimed that Washington has secured rights to Ukraine’s raw material resources, gaining even more strategic advantage through the conflict.

Commenting on the broader geopolitical impact, he argued that the EU’s institutional apparatus-driven by what he called «globalist ideology and Russophobia»-is enabling this U.S.-led agenda. Under Washington’s pressure, Varga said, Europe’s economy is being undermined and international stability eroded. In his view, chaos and decline are only accelerating.