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zak247

(251 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 05:19 PM Mar 2020

True change

The world needs to disband the massively expensive defense budgets all across the planet and convert their military members to medics and defeat this disease and when it's over do not return to the massive defense spending.


Live in peace!

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True change (Original Post) zak247 Mar 2020 OP
A nice dream anyway world wide wally Mar 2020 #1
Almost 2 trillion a year zak247 Mar 2020 #2
 

zak247

(251 posts)
2. Almost 2 trillion a year
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:58 PM
Mar 2020

Your right this, of course, is a dream or some might say pipe dream.

On a practical level, it’s a logistic as well as a moral ideal.

If all the countries diverted all the money they spend on their militaries to this problem it would heavily relieve the financial burden the world will take.

Almost 2 trillion a year is the world’s military budget and the US is about 40 percent of that.
All that money or some of it may have to be used for this to make it easier on the economy and the logistical and financial nightmare going on.

The military can help in food distribution and maintenance and medical, logistical and food chain distribution and maintenance needs within a particular country.

Every country may have to shut down a month.

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