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Global military spending has reached a record high, reflecting rising tensions between major nations. (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Major tensions between a handful of rich people.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

You know that all this military expenditure, all these weapons, drones, tanks, missiles and planes can only mean one thing in the future: peace of course. So much peace, a very strong peace.

[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

The three top spenders — the United States, China and Russia — spent a combined total of $US1.48 trillion, just over half of global expenditure.

Unfortunately not a new development, mainly due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine and an increasingly assertive China which in recent years has been engaging in the largest peacetime military buildup in history, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).