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2017 Proves to Have Been a Banner Year for the Military Industrial Complex
We live in an era when a Nobel Peace Prize winner an oversee 8 years of war, thousands of extrajudicial drone bombings and killing of innocent people, and no one calls into question the credentials of the Nobel organization. As the Obama presidency came to its end, many hoped that we may see a turn for the better in terms of military spending and the overuse of military power as a form of international diplomacy, but our hopes have been officially dashed.
The Trump administration is continuing the imperial legacy of modern American presidents and during his first year of office, the defense industry saw a banner year of international sales.
As reported by Foreign Policy in Focus, the Trump administration has upped the ante by initiating huge arms deals to many questionable regimes, and, “half of Pentagon spending goes to contractors, the military budget is set to skyrocket, and the Trump administration is peddling arms all over the world.”
In 2016, the Top 100 in the defense industry reported sales of over $364 billion dollars, and under the guidance of the Trump administration this number is rising fast.