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What does WW2 have to do with current defence spending?



A lot, actually. Most of the European countries were so badly in debt at the end of it that it laid the foundations for the US's expanded sphere of influence, particularly as regards the Middle East and East Asia. It was also the first time that the United States had united completely with one global objective and accomplished it. It created a Global Bipolar system which ended up with unipolarity after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Plus, it created the military industrial complex.

So...a lot.




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