Every day we read in our newspapers, hear on our radios. see on our television sets and on our mobile devices the wars that are being waged in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
We see the guns and tanks that are being used in all these countries. Where are the armaments coming from? Who manufactures and sells all these guns and tanks and other weapons of destruction?
And the 'freedom fighters' and the 'terrorists' they too use the weapons manufactured in the US, Russia, Germany, China, France, Israel, and all the other countries who sell them weapons.
The figures below are rough approximations.
The United States of America exports $8,760 million of weaponry every year.
Russia $8,003 milllion
China $1,783 million
Ukraine $1,344 million
Germany $1,193 million
France $1,139 million
UK $863 million
Israel $533 million
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