{"id":289957,"date":"2025-03-17T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289957"},"modified":"2025-03-15T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T03:23:01","slug":"usa-1-worldwide-arms-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/usa-1-worldwide-arms-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>12 Mar 2025 &#8211;\u00a0<em>The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world\u2019s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-289959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/US-military-exercise-tanks.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, Russia\u2019s global arms exports declined by 64% from 2020 to 2024, and China\u2019s fell by 5.4%, whereas those of the US grew by 21%.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2025\/03\/13\/us-top-weapons-exports-china-russia\/\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211;\u00a0geopoliticaleconomy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Mar 2025 &#8211;\u00a0The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world\u2019s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1161,1104,291,70,1594,1073],"class_list":["post-289957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-trade","tag-military","tag-usa","tag-war-economy","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289961,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289957\/revisions\/289961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}