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Voltaire2

(14,626 posts) Wed Feb 14, 2024, 09:30 AM Feb 2024

Global military spending hits record $2.2 trillion amid multiple wars

NATO member states are part of a global military spending spree in 2023, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
By Adam Taylor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/13/nato-spending-russia-ukraine-trump/

So basically global human civilization, confronted with a systemic existential environmental crisis has decided that the best path forward is to have lots of wars.

Imagine what we could build with 2 trillion dollars a year. How about a sustainable economic system that guaranteed everyone a decent life?

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Global military spending hits record $2.2 trillion amid multiple wars (Original Post) Voltaire2 Feb 2024 OP

More than a third of which is being spent by the US ... marble falls Feb 2024 #1

We are a failing species redqueen Feb 2024 #2

marble falls

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1. More than a third of which is being spent by the US ...

Reply to Voltaire2 (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2024, 09:44 AM

Feb 2024

The US Air Force is the largest air force in world. What is the second largest air force?

The US Navy.

redqueen

(115,164 posts)

2. We are a failing species

Reply to Voltaire2 (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2024, 09:48 AM

Feb 2024

And sadly we seem to be taking out as many other species as we can as the men in charge fight so they can have more things.

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