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  • icelimit@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    15 days ago

    It says 96b, less than 1% of military spending over the last decade, which imo is a misleading way of framing things. It would then be approximately 10% of average annual military expenditure over the last decade.

    Looks like a larger slice of the military spending pie so looks less like news. But it’s what it is.

    Also lifting regions out of nutritional poverty has knock on effects on development, education and general economic participation. It’s an absolute win all around. Even for shareholders as market size and productive, sustainable and educated labour pool grows.

    The rest of the military budget should be used for education, infrastructure and environmental protection. They are all absolute wins.