{"id":84780,"date":"2017-01-02T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=84780"},"modified":"2017-01-02T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:01:42","slug":"us-sold-40-billion-in-weapons-in-2015-tops-global-arms-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/us-sold-40-billion-in-weapons-in-2015-tops-global-arms-market\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sold $40 Billion in Weapons in 2015, Tops Global Arms Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the global arms trade declined overall, the biggest sellers of global weapons, the United States and France, saw an increase in sales.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ROK Marines test U.S. marine weapons. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

27 Dec 2016 – <\/em>With decades of imperialist meddling around the world and a culture defined by hyper-militarism, it\u2019s no surprise the United States yet again topped the list of global weapons sales last year, signing deals worth about US$40 billion, according to a new congressional study.<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/em><\/strong>Trump Says He Wants a Nuclear Arms Race<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The report<\/a>, \u201cConventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2008-2015,\u201d prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, found that the United States was miles ahead of the world\u2019s second-biggest weapons dealer, France, which made sales worth US$15 billion.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZrgUyOlzw1Y<\/p>\n

The largest buyers of arms in 2015, the report found, were largely U.S. allies in the Gulf region, with Qatar buying more than US$17 billion in weapons last year, followed by Egypt, which bought almost US$12 billion in arms, and Saudi Arabia, with over US$8 billion in weapons purchases.<\/p>\n

The global arms trade fell last year from the previous year, with countries around the world spending US$80 billion in 2015 for weapon purchases, down from the 2014 total of US$89 billion, the study found.<\/p>\n

Still, the United States and France both increased their overseas weapons sales in 2015, with U.S. arms sales that grew around US$4 billion in 2015 and France\u2019s that grew well over US$9 billion.<\/p>\n

After the United States, France, Russia and China, the study found that the world\u2019s major global arms suppliers include Sweden, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Britain, and Israel.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1OAR5SeOew<\/p>\n

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