At the latest NATO Summit, the president of the USA, Donald Trump pushed the other NATO allies to increase their military spending. The 29 North Atlantic Treaty Organization members have agreed in 2014 to reach or maintain defense budget by 2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Most countries are currently clearly below. (e.g. Germany 1.24%, Italy 1.15%, Spain 0.93%)
According to a recent NATO report the expected defense expenditure for 2018 is 936 billion US$. (USA: 623 B$ or about 67%). This is ~70% of the global war budget of 1337 B$ or 175 US$ for every of the 7.6 billion humans on earth.
Please world, spend the money on health care, education, and solving global warming, rather than destruction and killing.
Where is the peace movement, when incompetent politicians are just working for their supporters from military industry?
Give peace a chance and cut the military budgets until 2025 step by step to 100B$ and use the money only for peace keeping missions. Reducing the amount of private weapons, reduces the number of murders. Why shouldn’t this strategy work for armies, too?
