{"id":1032,"date":"2020-01-05T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2020-01-05T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T10:16:30","slug":"ive-fallen-for-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/ive-fallen-for-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve fallen for it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in January, at some point, I remember I need to update the &#8220;Global military spending so far this year&#8221; calculator on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conscienceonline.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Conscience web site<\/a> to reset it.\u00a0 So I check the web site, see it is clearly more than a year&#8217;s expenditure, go into the code and realise I don&#8217;t need to change it.\u00a0 It changes automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Globally we have already spent nearly \u00a317,000,000,000 on the military.<\/p>\n<p>Countries who will have already spent more than \u00a317,000,000,000 on their own so far this year, in decreasing spend order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USA<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Russia<\/li>\n<li>UK<\/li>\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Korea, South<\/li>\n<li>Italy<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you can think of your own reasons how some of those countries could be spending their money elsewhere.\u00a0 Such as Australia, which is currently on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, last year Iran spent about \u00a310,200,000,000 on their military, 2.7% of GDP, so only slightly more than NATO countries are expected to &#8216;contribute&#8217;.\u00a0 (The term &#8216;contribute&#8217; is used in the context of NATO as it is, presumably, some sort of charity.)<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Sigh&gt;.\u00a0 Starting another New Year appalled at the waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in January, at some point, I remember I need to update the &#8220;Global military spending so far this year&#8221; calculator on the Conscience web site to reset it.\u00a0 So I check the web site, see it is clearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/ive-fallen-for-it-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,244,207],"tags":[284,245,208],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunity-cost","category-tax","category-waste-of-money","tag-opportunity-cost","tag-tax","tag-waste-of-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}