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Armed and dangerous

While the US military behemoth is by far the world’s largest, looked at a different way, a per capita military spending infographic reveals that it is far exceeded by israel. This also aligns with the observation that the zionist entity is a military attached to a state rather than a state with a military. I’ll wager the Saudi Arabian arms purchases are largely from the US and serve to recycle the petrodollars from US consumption.  From Princeton’s International Networks Archive (click here for full enlarged graphic).

per-capita-arms-spending

One comment on “Armed and dangerous

  1. Uri
    21 March, 2009

    I wish they’d break these down into “defense” and “aggression” subtotals.

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This entry was posted on 20 March, 2009 by in Israel, Militarism, Military, USA and tagged .

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