U.S.- LEADERS IN BLIND ARMS RACE

In total military spending, we lead.

“The USA with its massive spending budget, has long been the principal determinant of the current world trend, often accounting for close to half of all the world’s military expenditure. The effects of global financial crisis and the post-Iraq/Afghanistan military operations have seen a decline in its spending, now accounting for 39% of spending in 2012.”

As the world’s foremost exporter of weapons, we lead.

The main importers and exporters of major arms, 2010–14

Exporter	Global share (%)	Importer	Global share (%)
1. USA	31	1. India	15
2. Russia	27	2. Saudi Arabia	5
3. China	5	3. China	5
4. Germany	5	4. UAE	4
5. France	5	5. Pakistan	4
6. UK	4	6. Australia	4
7. Spain	3	7. Turkey	3
8. Italy	3	8. USA	3
9. Ukraine	3	9. South Korea	3
10. Israel	2	10. Singapore	3

From the prestigious Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

And will continue to lead.

"U.S. Reforms 'Open Floodgates' on Arms Exports"

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2013/10/17/17658

The blind lead the blind.

An arms race is a race to nowhere, and a theft from the poor, murders the innocent.

Passing out {the manufacture and distribution of} these worldwide weapons is equivalent to a massive sterilization and birth control campaign. Populations control in third world countries by supplying them with the means to make their enmities go viral in violent mutual self destructions. Insidious anti-family planning. This war economy has no lasting benefit to winners nor losers. It only increases suffering, and the stain on our collective soul, brings us closer to a bad end.

The Blind Leading the Blind -- by Pieter Bruegel the Elder - 1568

"How a nuclear near-miss in ’95 would be a disaster today"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/01/25/how-nuclear-near-miss-would-disaster-today/TG4nhiUzPyFtcV0QGybj6J/story.html

In the New Mexico desert, at the site of the first test explosion of a nuclear bomb on July 16^th 1945, people are praying again through the night, that we will put away this terrible sword. May we join with them in prayer, on this feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and embrace the way of merciful saving light—brought to us by her son, Jesus.