• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s true that military spending as a percentage of GDP has dropped over the years, yes.

    It doesn’t change the fact that we massively neglect the needs of our own people in order to spend incredible sums of public money for warmongers, money said warmongers don’t need. It’s not enough that our military has bases in nearly every country on earth or that we’re running wars in seven or eight countries simultaneously, we’re now expected to find hundreds of billions more for other country’s wars too.

    Canada spends 26 bill a year on war. Mexico spends 8 bill a year on war. We spend more than a trillion every year.

    All while our people are suffering under a 30-50% cost of living increase and housing scarcity is accelerating.

    It’s obscene.