Buy the bullet: global defence spending

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The Economist

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4.3 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Governments the world over are beefing up defence spending—chief among them America’s and China’s. But some aggressive countries’ budgets are actually shrinking. May Day protests in France took a violent turn this year, and that complicates President Macron’s efforts to calm an already protest-prone populace. And, academics have been trying to determine which English-speaking country produces the most bullshit.

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