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Unfettered Arms sales increase under Biden
The US was the highest military spender in 2021, with 801 billion US dollars dedicated to the military, equivalent to 30% of the total military spending worldwide that year (2.1 trillion US dollars).
America, the world's largest arms dealer, has approved potential sales of $1.1 billion worth of arms to Taiwan amid heightened tensions with Beijing.
In essence, the US government is the world's largest arms dealer with all the responsibility that it entails.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/09/09/688902/Unfettered-Arms-sales-increase-under-Biden
It's commonly reported that US arms deliveries end up in the hands of ' the enemy '. Arms dealers don't care. That means more wars and more arms sales. Portions of their profits go towards electing and maintaining arms-sales friendly politicians, such as Klepto-Joe.
The current war in Ukraine is arms-sales fueled and billions of dollars more are about to be allocated to that NATO-led conflict along with more billions for Taiwan- a move which is almost certain to cause more war. You can't claim ' defense spending ' when your spending is in another country's back-yard. No, all this ' defense spending ' is aggression spending - and the arms dealers have the US by the balls.
Somebody must have calculated the total spend on Vietnam- which resulted in an ass-kicking by natives.
Somebody must have calculated the total spend on Afghanistan- which resulted in an ass-kicking by natives- but the dealers don't care. The more protracted the wars, the larger the profits.
Meanwhile, while the likes of Klepto Joe and his self-serving cabal lavish billions of dollars on wars designed to promote more wars the country has a decaying infrastructure- trillions of dollars needed- and a growing problem of poverty.
When this must be OBVIOUS to everybody, how is it that the US system of ' democracy ' has culminated in a giant Ponzi scheme with arms dealers at the apex ?
Maybe it's because American voters are scared of the rest of the world. If they're not, they should be.