US and Russian fighter
jets, bombers, missiles, submarines have great demand across the globe, the
deal ranges from multi- millions to multi-billion dollars, there are nations
which reroute the budget which is meant to be spend for humanitarian ground to
buy those defense equipment.
European claim they the
most peaceful nations in the world but they are no correct, they have great
infrastructure for weapons manufacturing, they involve in every major deal
across the world while tender and negotiations, and French, Swedish, British,
German, Greece etc fighter jets, submarines and assault rifle are being used by
many countries.
The major importers are
China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Middle Eastern nations. Recently, Saudi
Arabia made a controversial deal of US $ 250 billion with president Trump, the
deal include tanks, drone, advance missile system, bombers and anti- missile
defense system, and it was the biggest defense deal in the history.
Russian S400 has many customer lined up, Turkey, China, India, and other mid east nations, China has acquired S400 from Russia under multi-billion dollar defense deal, India has already done a deal with Russia for US $ 15 billion defense deal including S400, and Turkey has been risking NATO membership and is on war of words with United States.
UN and other peace organization have been calling for disarmament of the planet from the sophisticated war equipment, but most of the leading nations are increasing their defense budget to new height.
Stockholm International
Peace Research Organization had released the fact sheet for 2016 defense
spending, It shows US $1,686 billion was spent on the defense globally which is
almost 2 percent of the world GDP, and its equal to the GDP of Italy. The
defense budget US $ 1.6 trillion is being wasted on the name of security, the
budget is equivalent to the GDP of a major economy, this is the most ridiculous
thing happening in the so called civilized world.
The fund could have been
used for, the uplifting from the poverty, climate change, to solve food crisis,
to bailout the economy of Greece and humanitarian crisis in the war torn Middle
East and Africa.
