{"id":859,"date":"2018-07-11T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2018-07-11T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:26:23","slug":"trump-urges-nato-members-to-double-military-funding-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/07\/trump-urges-nato-members-to-double-military-funding-target\/","title":{"rendered":"“Trump urges NATO members to double military funding target”"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC news story “Trump urges NATO members to double military funding target<\/em>” – Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Currently, NATO members are required to give 2% of the entire country’s Gross Domestic Product to the arms industry, with the non-democratic body NATO dictating what they have to spend it on.\u00a0 This is so NATO can defend Western Europe from a Soviet invasion by the Warsaw Pact.\u00a0 That’s the Warsaw pact that was dissolved in 1991, some 27 years ago.<\/p>\n

That means the arms industry is given, each year, the entire productivity of much of Europe and the USA and other countries for one week.\u00a0 We don’t do this for education, health, homelessness or all manner of socially good things – just the means to kill people.<\/p>\n

But now President Trump wants that doubled – doubled! – to 4%.\u00a0 He says one 25th of all production in every sector of society should be given to the arms industry.<\/p>\n

The Cold War ended over half my life ago.\u00a0 Why are we still funding it at all?<\/p>\n

Why should we cut health provision, housing, education, social welfare or anything else to pay for the tools and means to kill people?\u00a0 It is insane.<\/p>\n

Unless he’s a puppet of the arms industry.\u00a0 Happy to take their money and doesn’t care what the cost will be to the world.<\/p>\n

It was this kind of uplifting of military expenditure prior to the Great War that, arguably, helped lead to it occur.<\/p>\n

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