The US is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world's weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia.
Thank you Ben Norton. Your figueres are concise and succinct. Though the US spends way more on arms than any other country, it cannot even defeat Yemen, the poorest Arab country. Can we say way ovepriced and inefficient?
The thing is the media dont ask questions and neither do the people either.
"2% of GDP"? "5% of GDP"? Why? Is any fixed percentage of GDP is being allocated to education of children? Universities? Healthcare? Vaccines? Childcare? Elderlycare? Protecting against floods, heatwaves or natural catastrophies? Scientific research?
Why weapons?
And what happens when everyone spends ever-increasing amounts of money on weapons? Well they get used on someone. Because weapons. Does anyone know history at all?
These are choices and they affect whether life is miserable for most, or luxurious for a tiny few, until it all goes up in flames.
It’s not difficult to understand the how and why of it. When the Soviet Union collapsed the necessity for weapons, the idea of that necessity, could largely evaporate. As a child of the Cold War, I recall the joy I felt at the time: the fear and hatred could end. And then I watched in disbelief as the US forged the expanding growth of NATO. That treaty alliance was built to contain the USSR, but the USSR was gone, so why would it need to continue and expand. Weapons! Weapons, pure and simple, and mandating required amounts of spending on weapons was the most efficient way to funnel huge sums of money into the military/industrial complex. And the state, the US Government, via the corrupt ganglia of lobbyists, lawyers and lunatics, was happy to prop up the next boogeyman to keep it all going. Look carefully at the EU at this moment. It takes greed and animus to shovel the human carnage through the machine. Humans excel in this capacity. It will continue until we have destroyed ourselves. Coming soon, I think.
To expand on what Zachary noted above, this is the kind of information that is comprehensible to the wider international audience. People like to see where there country stands. Keep chugging.
I think it would be great to also post a chart for military spending and and arms imports/exports per capita. That's where you'd see even more astounding figures for the US compared to China and India, for example. Given that the US only has a Department of Defense, not War, and given that US territory is probably the least vulnerable to invasion of any major country (except perhaps Australia), per capita statistics would show even more clearly the absurdity of US military spending.
Thank you Ben Norton. Your figueres are concise and succinct. Though the US spends way more on arms than any other country, it cannot even defeat Yemen, the poorest Arab country. Can we say way ovepriced and inefficient?
Well said, Zachary.
Thank you.
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The thing is the media dont ask questions and neither do the people either.
"2% of GDP"? "5% of GDP"? Why? Is any fixed percentage of GDP is being allocated to education of children? Universities? Healthcare? Vaccines? Childcare? Elderlycare? Protecting against floods, heatwaves or natural catastrophies? Scientific research?
Why weapons?
And what happens when everyone spends ever-increasing amounts of money on weapons? Well they get used on someone. Because weapons. Does anyone know history at all?
These are choices and they affect whether life is miserable for most, or luxurious for a tiny few, until it all goes up in flames.
No one asks any questions at all.
It’s not difficult to understand the how and why of it. When the Soviet Union collapsed the necessity for weapons, the idea of that necessity, could largely evaporate. As a child of the Cold War, I recall the joy I felt at the time: the fear and hatred could end. And then I watched in disbelief as the US forged the expanding growth of NATO. That treaty alliance was built to contain the USSR, but the USSR was gone, so why would it need to continue and expand. Weapons! Weapons, pure and simple, and mandating required amounts of spending on weapons was the most efficient way to funnel huge sums of money into the military/industrial complex. And the state, the US Government, via the corrupt ganglia of lobbyists, lawyers and lunatics, was happy to prop up the next boogeyman to keep it all going. Look carefully at the EU at this moment. It takes greed and animus to shovel the human carnage through the machine. Humans excel in this capacity. It will continue until we have destroyed ourselves. Coming soon, I think.
To expand on what Zachary noted above, this is the kind of information that is comprehensible to the wider international audience. People like to see where there country stands. Keep chugging.
We were telling you in the 1970s that the US was the biggest arms dealers in the world.
Remember us? The hippy anti-war movement?
I think it would be great to also post a chart for military spending and and arms imports/exports per capita. That's where you'd see even more astounding figures for the US compared to China and India, for example. Given that the US only has a Department of Defense, not War, and given that US territory is probably the least vulnerable to invasion of any major country (except perhaps Australia), per capita statistics would show even more clearly the absurdity of US military spending.
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