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Weapons manufacturers are terrorist organizations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Does that include weapons manufacturers in Russia and China?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/comment/9929213

According to them, yeah seems that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This has also changed significantly since 2022 since Russia has effectively stopped exporting weapons. They used to be pretty close to the US in terms of total exports

[+] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean it's a pretty academic question. Do the merchants of war drive global conflict, or are they necessary for national defense? Or is the issue more nuanced?

Russia historically makes up about half the world's arms trade. Though that has declined in recent years due to Ukraine. So who is the chicken and who is the egg?

Fwiw, I tend to agree that arms manufacturers do play a role in driving global conflict, but it's also clearly A responding to B and B responding to A.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Dunno about China but surely AKs being the small arms of choice for many countries, rebles, freedom fighters, terrorists and partisans of every flavour must put Kalashnikov Concern pretty high up there.