Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Guess who's the world's largest supplier of weapons?




The US.


For a nation to truly be the hegemonic structure that the US is, I guess being the world leader in promoting violence just adds fuel to the fire. The second largest arms dealer in the world is Italy, but the US actually supplies 10 times the amount of weapons that they do. If one were to look at all business that's done in the world regarding arms trade, the US would account for 68% of those transactions.


Put simply, it is reports like these that must be critically examined in order for peace, justice or sustainability to truly ever take root in the US or around the globe. For those that will say I just bash and bash, all I want to know is where's the accountability?
Of the close to 37 billion dollars in deals the US made last year, about 9.6 billion went to Near East and Asian countries. This means the US, while engaging in war in Iraq, Afghanistan, while bombing Pakistan and threatening to build missile bases in Europe and take over military bases in Colombia is doing what? They are spreading their reaches across the globe, as they have in the past, to spread hegemony, to continue putting out the image that the US is the supreme global leader in everything, and how does one do this? By being the largest, most powerful military in the world and ensuring other countries have enough weapons so everyone can kill everyone else. Gross Domestic product (GDP) rises with each conflict, each war, and it's no wonder the contradictions grow in their glare with each rock unturned, because imagine what would happen if the US abandoned its nuclear arsenal and stopped making the money it did off of selling weapons?




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