Hi friends, and welcome to Robcast 57.

This is part four of a series called Politics and Guns, and this episode is called the United

States of America.

So currently there are 196 nations on Earth, and one of those 196 nations is the United

States of America.

Now the United States of America has only been around a bit over 200 years, and the

US is roughly 4% of the world's population, but it happens to be the world's largest

arm dealer.

This one country, the United States of America, controls 31% of the global weapons market.

In 2011, the US sold 66 billion dollars in weapons to other nations around the world.

The US supplies 94 other nations with the weapons that their militaries use.

The US supplies almost half of the other nations in the world with their weapons.

Now the US spends somewhere around 612 billion dollars a year on defense.

The second highest spending nation in the world is Russia which spends 76 billion.

The US spends 612 billion a year.

Russia at number two spends 76 billion.

The US spends more than the next 10 countries combined.

One example, there are 31 aircraft carriers in the world.

The US has 19 of them.

The other 12 aircraft carriers are operated and owned by the rest of the world combined.

Now a number of nations that have militaries have military bases in their nation to defend

them and protect them and keep them safe.

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