World’s third biggest weapons exporter worried about world’s growing military expenditures
Well, not really. Not unless those expenditures stay steady for American or Russian weapons, that is.
Germans don’t like to talk about it or anything because it’s a bit taboo and a deep and dark family secret or something (not) and they are such militant pacifists after all and we all know that they would like nothing better than to rid the world of weapons forever, don’t we? But when it comes to exporting weapons, I just got to tell you, they really rock.
At least that’s what a survey conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) would have us believe (and we all know how shady those Swedes can be – think “neutrality” during World War II). Anyway, the survey says that the USA, Russia and Germany are the world’s leading weapons exporters, with Germany’s latest weapons export piece of the pie profits coming in at around $3.395 billion. Damn, just think of all the ploughshares you could buy with that.
All I can say is that it’s good to know that all of these German weapons are being used for goodness and niceness and purely defensive purposes (did you know that Wehrmacht meant defensive force?), not like some other countries’ weapons out there, if you know what I’m sayin’. Otherwise a whole lot of people in this country wouldn’t be able to sleep well at night.
Geld stinkt nicht.
Germans don’t like to talk about it or anything because it’s a bit taboo and a deep and dark family secret or something (not) and they are such militant pacifists after all and we all know that they would like nothing better than to rid the world of weapons forever, don’t we? But when it comes to exporting weapons, I just got to tell you, they really rock.
At least that’s what a survey conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) would have us believe (and we all know how shady those Swedes can be – think “neutrality” during World War II). Anyway, the survey says that the USA, Russia and Germany are the world’s leading weapons exporters, with Germany’s latest weapons export piece of the pie profits coming in at around $3.395 billion. Damn, just think of all the ploughshares you could buy with that.
All I can say is that it’s good to know that all of these German weapons are being used for goodness and niceness and purely defensive purposes (did you know that Wehrmacht meant defensive force?), not like some other countries’ weapons out there, if you know what I’m sayin’. Otherwise a whole lot of people in this country wouldn’t be able to sleep well at night.
Geld stinkt nicht.
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Selbstverständlich.
PS: Thanks for the chin-scratching post, Joe and Kyle.
I popped this one over to the serious chin-scratching analytical thinkers at http://atlanticreview.org/ (Comment this)