When War is Profitable

Last lines from a recent movie:

While private gunrunners continue to thrive, the world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France and China.*

They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

What happens when the brokers of peace are those who quietly profit from war?

Who will be the peacemaker then? And what then is the U.N.?

When Christ said "blessed are the peacemakers" it was not because they would be ideally positioned to fuel war.

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This one shouldn't have surprised me, but it did.

- V.

* According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in 2000 the biggest arms exporters were the U.S., Russia, Germany, U.K., and France (source). In 2007, SIPRI records that the biggest arms exporters were the U.S., Russia, Germany, Netherlands, and Ukraine.