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GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT
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Geopolitical Economy Report
Mar 14, 2025
The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war. Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/... Credit to Stephen Semler for some charts: https://www.stephensemler.com
The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war. Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/... Credit to Stephen Semler for some charts: https://www.stephensemler.com
Topics
0:00 China "threat" claims
0:43 US military spending
1:34 US foreign interventions
2:40 USA is no. 1 arms dealer
3:57 Top weapons exporters
5:08 Growth in arms exports
5:56 Israel's suppliers
6:23 Top weapons importers
7:16 Europe doubles arms imports
8:32 Trump demands more NATO spending
10:47 Replacing welfare with warfare
12:56 Top military spenders
14:39 Real US military budget
15:40 DOGE ignores Pentagon fraud
17:00 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report ||
Addendum
Why does Trump want the US to take over Greenland? This is the real reason.
Mar 17, 2025
Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural resources, especially critical minerals.
Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural resources, especially critical minerals.Print this article [bws_pdfprint display=’print’]
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