Saturday, 15 May 2021, 4:25 pm
While
the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease
pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a
few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism.
While most big military spenders (including the
super-mega-biggest one) have increased or kept their
spending steady, the SIPRI numbers
show a serious reduction from 2019 to 2020 in military
spending by Brazil, and reductions as well by China, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey (the only NATO member
stepping out of line on this), Singapore, Pakistan, Algeria,
Indonesia, Colombia, Kuwait, and Chile.
Chile is reducing
its military spending by 4.9% in order to better address the