When the naive, lefty medical profession and academia criticize the Western defense industry! Useful idiots?
For perspective: Typically, western countries spend only 1-3% of their government budgets on defense!
If any doctor had the courage to poison megalomaniacs and warmongers like Putin the Terrible, maybe then the world would be a better place and less weapons would be needed! How about that idea?
"The global arms industry should be viewed as a commercial determinant of health, similar to tobacco and fossil fuels [???], a new landmark series in The BMJ [British Medical Journal] asserts.
Beyond war zones: One analysis outlines how arms production and use fuel long-term public health crises [???] by:
Disrupting health and food systems
Diverting funds from critically needed health infrastructure
Increasing deadly access to firearms in civilian settings
Harming the environment through pollution and contamination
Low-income regions are consistently most vulnerable to such detrimental impacts.
Industry influence: Much like the tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel industries, arms companies use lobbying, media, research funding, and “militainment” to shape policy and public perception, found another analysis of industry tactics.
Confronting the machine: The health sector must challenge the arms industry with the same resistance applied to Big Tobacco or Big Oil, argued editors in one of the series’ op-eds—exposing harms, advocating for peace and disarmament, and pushing for a shift in government spending from weapons to public welfare."
"The BMJ Series on the arms industry as a commercial determinant of health uncovers the role of the arms trade in health and calls for more scrutiny of its health-harming activities and its unhealthy relationship with governments.
An international group of experts lay out the direct and wider harms of arms and show how weapons manufacturers use commercial strategies to subvert public health agendas and shape discourse around security and violence.
The Series argues that, like the tobacco, alcohol, and fossil fuel industries, the arms industry should be seen as a commercial determinant of health, where corporate practices matter as much as products when considering how industries can harm health."
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