Visual of Global Military Expenditures: US Comprises Half of Global Military Spending
How did the US propel itself so far ahead, to the point that it could, alone, comprise about half of global military spending?
Professor of history at
Cornell University: “The idea that the commodification and suffering
and forced labor of African-Americans is what made the United States
powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to
hear. Yet it is the truth.”
Even divided in half, the two halves of the US would still be tied
for the lead in global military spending, 89 billion dollars each ahead
of the number two spender, China.
