United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons
The United States was the world’s largest arms exporter between 2020 and 2024, delivering weapons to 107 states.
The argument could be made that all of this military production for the world is for defense purposes. But that perhaps would require some effort. Considering the Pentagon never managed to have a succesfull audit, no one really knows how much the United States spends nor where the money goes.
We think of some dark place on earth where unsavory characters are trading weapons on the Black Market. Here apparently openly, out in front, the U.S. is heavily involved in the arms business. What am I missing?
An interesting factoid from Zero Hedge:
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it accounted for 43 percent of global exports in that time period, up from 35 percent of all international arms sales between 2015 and 2019.
France was in second place, accounting for 9.6 percent of arms exports in 2020-2024, up from 8.6 percent in the five year period before.
This is according to the latest release of weapons transfer data by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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Where the U.S., France and Italy were among the countries to grow their arms exports in 2020-24, Russia, China, Germany the United Kingdom and Israel were among those to record decreases in the time period.
The five largest importers in 2020-24 were Ukraine, India, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Notes from the video
The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
Breakdown of topics in the video
Topics 0:00 China “threat” claims 0:43 US military spending 1:34 US foreign interventions 2:40 USA is no. 1 arms dealer 3:57 Top weapons exporters 5:08 Growth in arms exports 5:56 Israel’s suppliers 6:23 Top weapons importers 7:16 Europe doubles arms imports 8:32 Trump demands more NATO spending 10:47 Replacing welfare with warfare 12:56 Top military spenders 14:39 Real US military budget 15:40 DOGE ignores Pentagon fraud 17:00 Outro
Not exactly giving peace a chance.
Source: https://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/united-states-is-the-biggest-arms-dealer-on-earth-responsible-for-43-of-the-worlds-weapons/
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