$2.6 trillion of global military spending

source: SIPRI
https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex

@infobeautiful @samiamsam This is why we can’t have nice things. Eisenhower warned us.

@donhawkins And Smedley Butler before that in the early 1930's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

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War Is a Racket - Wikipedia