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Europe new hot spot for arms imports: report

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Doesn’t play a role, as that is only the additional second neck breaker for European developed countries. They have already beforehand pushed themselves out of the history books with opening of borders and limitless global immigration. Those rising weapon imports or now the Ukraine war and other military or economic conflicts only accelerate and accomplish that a bit faster, because those weapons are of course not for display in a joyful museum but intended for use and mass killing one day sooner or later too. In other words, the White old men prefer to leave, but now even unnecessarily louder and with much higher speed.

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When it comes to exporting countries, the U.S. leads the pack with 39 percent.

Big spending on defense has boosted the US economy for decades. Politicians who've approved the spending on weapons and later approved their use in wars around the globe need to be voted out of office, and candidates for office that want to maintain the madness not voted for.

Voters in California, Virginia and Texas and plus states dependent on military spending need to find candidates willing to break the cycle. And yet the plans remain for the US to spend trillions on nukes in the coming years, while huge numbers of Americans lack decent healthcare and the infrastructure crumbles, and the economy remains dependent on burning huge amounts of toxic spewing fossil fuels, instead of switching to clean renewable sources of energy. Maybe bonobos and chimps cannot break the cycle of war, but humans should be able to move beyond the level of our primate relatives.

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War is big business !

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Proponents of greater US defense spending, how's spending huge amounts of taxpayer's money working out in Ukraine. And do you really want more money spent on nukes. I want Biden to continue the reasonable policy of not further ruffling the child's ego of the Russian psychopath threatening to go nuke. The US has done that twice, and the world with the possible exception of the psychopath just mentioned seems to not want anything to do with nukes, and who knows whether he actually does, I cannot believe any of his palaces has a fallout shelter able to survive a nuke hit.

The end of this war in Ukraine is up to the reasonable people in Russia to get their nutso leaders to end this madness, and for the online Putin backers to urge their idol Putin to do the same. Stop with the "but there are Nazis in Ukraine" nonsense, there are probably Nazi sympathizers in every country, including Russia and the US, even peace loving Canada and New Zealand probably have them, as long as they stay in their own lanes, let local authorities there handle the scum. And for China and all other countries to stay within their respective territories. Leave sovereign nations alone, find and/or develop the resources needed within each nation's own borders especially with regard to energy. And all nations send your militaries back within those borders.

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Yes, war IS big business, just ask china and Putin

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Big spending on defense has boosted the US economy for decades. Politicians who've approved the spending on weapons and later approved their use in wars around the globe need to be voted out of office,

A bit more difficult than that and it’s not entirely the fault of the US, the difference is, we make the best firepower and there are people globally that need weapons, they need, we have the technology, supply and demand.

and candidates for office that want to maintain the madness not voted for. 

That might not happen as these things are discussed behind closed doors in Washington.

Voters in California, Virginia and Texas and plus states dependent on military spending need to find candidates willing to break the cycle.

We don’t and won’t break the cycle. This is why we love the 2nd amendment

And yet the plans remain for the US to spend trillions on nukes in the coming years, while huge numbers of Americans lack decent healthcare and the infrastructure crumbles, and the economy remains dependent on burning huge amounts of toxic spewing fossil fuels,

instead of switching to clean renewable sources of energy.

There is right now nothing on the market that can replace gas combustion engines. If they can create an EV that is below 25K and that can last in heavy rain or snow and can give me over 500 mile range in one charge then maybe and since EV make up only 3% of all car sales and let’s not forget, the more EV cars you own, the higher your electricity bill will get, so maybe in 25-30 years, but as of now, not happening. Better to drill and ramp up as much of the natural gas, oil, begin fracking and re-opening the Keystone pipeline become more competitive and energy independent and rebuild our military up and to make it as lethal as possible.

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America can spend $1 trillion a year on weapons and military but can not provide universal healthcare with more than 40 million who can no longer afford basic healthcare.

Seems the political party in charge would do something about that?

Oh they did- they increased the defense budget even more.

WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is expected to ask Congress for a U.S. defense budget exceeding $770 billion for the next fiscal year as the Pentagon seeks to modernize the military, according to three sources familiar with the negotiations, eclipsing the record budget requests by former President Donald Trump.

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Where is Sweden? She also exports weapon to other countries and she is missing here!

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Europe saw the world's biggest rise in arms imports in the past five years, a trend set to accelerate following recent rearmament commitments amid the threat posed by Russia

Several NATO members have been spending less than they agreed to and now that has came back to bite them.

United Kingdom is one of the few that maintained the agreed spending limit on weapons.

When it comes to exporting countries, the U.S. leads the pack with 39 percent.

No surprise there.

Just wish the human race would come out the primative barbaric age and spend those weapon trillions on improving the lives of the people of the world.

But that is in the very distant furure, if the human race is still around.

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Looking at that map, you can tell who's the biggest warmonger. Clue: the country which has started more wars around the world than any other country.

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Voters in California, Virginia and Texas and plus states dependent on military spending need to find candidates willing to break the cycle.

Not convinced that California is all that enriched by defense spending. The state used to have a lot more military bases than it does today and many of the aircraft companies that used to be in the LA Basin or San Diego are long gone. Hughes, Consolidated, North American, General Dynamics, Douglas, Ryan are all gone, either merged with a larger company or liquidated. Every base in the Bay Area is gone and there used to be huge naval presence there. Hunters Point, Mare Island, Alameda, Moffett Field, The Presidio, Treasure Island, all closed. Long Beach Naval Station and the shipyard there were scraped clean to build the Hanjin container terminal. Lockheed Shipbuilding and Todd Shipyards both in San Pedro are now another big container terminal. Southwest Marine's old shipyard on Terminal Island is gone. Lots of ships built there during WWII. The old Terminal Island Naval Air Station is half buried under the APL terminal. El Toro and Tustin Marine Corps Air Stations both gone. Camarillo, Norton, Mather, Castle and George AFBs closed. All the old Army Nike missile batteries are long gone. For Ord and Fritzsche Army Airfield closed. Most of the military in California now is in San Diego or out in the Mojave Desert. The only active aircraft manufacturing is in Palmdale and Robinson Helicopters in Torrance, but Robinson doesn't make anything for the military. The military doesn't have such a big impact on the California economy and many want to see bases gone so the land can be developed. The old Navy Recruit Depot in San Diego is a great example as is old Ford Ord. Both are thriving commercial and residential areas. I knew both as military bases and watched the change first hand.

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Where is Sweden? She also exports weapon to other countries and she is missing here!

The map is missing Sweden (SAAB Aircraft, several missile and naval gun systems, Archer SP artillery), Norway (JSM, NSM, surface launched AMRAAM), Serbia (SP artillery and armored vehicles), Croatia (Armored Vehicles), Czech Republic (jet trainers, Tatra trucks and their own version of the T-72), Romania (armored vehicles), South Africa (A-Darter missile, SP artillery, gunship helicopters), Singapore and Brazil.

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One more nation left off the map is Turkey. They are selling a locally designed helicopter gunship to Pakistan, jet trainers and of course their Bayraktar drones. They sell a variety of armored vehicles and are one of the top three exporters of small arms after the US and Czech Republic.

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The 4th largest exporter of small arms? Brazil. It exports more small arms than Russia, China or Israel. They also sell small combat aircraft like the Tucano and Super Tucano among others.

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Where is Sweden? She also exports weapon to other countries and she is missing here!

Yes. I also demand to know why Sweden is not on the graphic entitled "top ten arms exporters".

Why could she have been excluded???

What is the criteria for inclusion???

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