Less than 3% of G7 military spending could help end global hunger and solve Global South debt crisis
www.commondreams.org
With funds equivalent to just 2.9 percent ($35.7 billion) of their combined annual military spending, Group of Seven (G7) countries could help end world hunger and solve the debt crisis in the Global South, reveals new Oxfam analysis ahead of the G7 Summit in Borgo Egnazia, Italy.Eradicating world h...
  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    0·
    5 months ago

    America could either tax its wealthy or defund the military a small amount and it would be looking at historically significant course changing windfall

    Yet it does the opposite.

    Of both.

    Every

    Single

    Time

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Hmm, but who would make money if they did that? Answer: Nobody in the short-term.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      0·
      5 months ago

      Also, can’t have the “wrong people” making money and gaining influence, especially on the world stage