The unprecedented rise in military spending shows that global peace and security are eroding. Photo: SIPRI
According to Nan Tian, Senior Research Fellow of SIPRI’s Arms Production and Military Expenditure Programme, “The unprecedented rise in military spending shows that global peace and security are eroding. Countries are prioritizing strengthening their military power, but they are facing the risk of falling into a spiral of military action and reaction in the context of increasingly volatile global security and geopolitics.” .
“Worldwide spending on weapons and the machinery of war is appalling,” said Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen. With such a large amount of money, we can solve all the major challenges that humanity faces such as hunger, disease and catastrophic climate change. The US is responsible for more than 1/3 of the world’s ‘inhumane’ spending.”
SIPRI’s report also said that India is the country with the fourth largest military spending in the world, the largest percentage increase in spending is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (105%), and the conflict in the Middle East region, causing military spending in this region to increase the most in the past decade. In the Middle East, Israel increased spending by 24%, reaching $27.5 billion, but still ranked second, behind Saudi Arabia.
* Poland is ready to deploy NATO nuclear weapons
In an interview with the press on April 22, President Andrzej Duda said Poland was ready to allow NATO to deploy nuclear weapons in the country. “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons on Polish territory as part of sharing nuclear capabilities to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready,” Duda said. do that”.
President Andrzej Duda said Poland is ready to allow NATO to deploy nuclear weapons in the country. Photo: Getty Images
Poland is a NATO member and a strong supporter of Ukraine. Poland currently has a border of about 230km with Kaliningrad – a special territory of Russia, and shares a 402km border with Belarus, a close ally of Russia.
Mr. Duda also said that Poland and the United States have been conducting discussions on nuclear cooperation between the two countries “for some time.” “The Americans have their interests in Poland,” he emphasized. Previously, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had repeatedly publicly stated that Poland was essentially in the “eve” of war, but Mr. Duda firmly denied this statement.
“I believe that if we act responsibly, there will never be a war, because we will always be strong enough not to be attacked,” he asserted.
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