Scale of arms tradeGovernment and commercial secrecy has meant that the size of the global arms trade can only be estimated. One of the most respected annual estimates is made by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). For 2005 it estimated the value of the global trade in conventional weapons at $56 billion/£27 billion. Significantly, between 2002 and 2005 there has been a massive increase in the market totalling around $20 billion/£9.84 billion.

The proportion of military expenditure accounted for by countries in the developing world was about 18% in 1993 (up from 6% in 1965 but down from 24% in 1989). During the 1980s, NATO countries supplied 31% of arms in the developing world, with France supplying 11%, and the Warsaw Pact countries supplying 58%. In 1994 the USA was a major weapons supplier in 45 of the world’s 50 regional conflicts, and sold arms worth $14.5 billion/£9.1 billion

umm, sometimes interests are disguised behind morals, uh ???
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now Chirac is said having had an adventure with a japanese girl, but still up to now no proof could be edited, as well as for his japanese bank account

so you merely repeat “rumors”
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Cog

Then I am even more admiring them

Unable to google it up just yet…

IIRC, this came from an interview with a long serving member of the French national detective force.

He bitterly complained that as long as Chirac was Preident he could not press charges.

Further, in his interview, he stated that he’d been set free by the retirement of the President of France.

Subsequently, the whole thing was buried.

The reporter did confirm that some Japanese bank had been contacted and THEY affirmed that Chirac has a huge deposit on account: something not previously disclosed.

Further investigation is warranted.

When you’re investigating former heads of state you’d be naive to think that they can’t still influence the situation.

It’s a muddy pot on the boil.

WWII is decades into the past…

Revelations that impeach the storyline STILL keep bubbling up.

No one can be all that confident in praise, damnation or exoneration. Too much manipulation is still possible for players at that level of power.

You must remark upon the reluctance of current office holders across all nations to air the dirty laundry of their predecessors…

Very well. Newly arrived recruits Laurel and Hardy saved the Legionaires of Fort Arid from the riff-raff Riff attack, in “Beau Hunks” (1931.) It’s celebrated to this day at Sons of the Desert gatherings worldwide.

Slaughter now or slaughter later.
Slaughter later = slaughter more.

Please search archive for author’s note; January this year, I believe.

ChIraq had to auto-immunize himself on/for that score, too.

Did he get it converted into Yen in time? Perhaps.

He certainly did not give it back.

Puzzled…

1. France looks after its self-interest. It is natural and reasonable policy paradigm. My only issue is with hypocrisy coming from French circles when they protest too much about self-interest of others. And I don’t buy the “merchants of death” meme. France sells its weapon systems, so does Sverige.

2. Sometimes, what actually represents self-interest may be a bit murky. ChIraq, for instance, had misguided ideas in that regard and de facto went against French self-interest, confusing his own myopic ideas about self-interest for that of France.

(I have some sources that I can use another time)

MC, I were being serious.