"European organizations working on arms control—such as Amnesty International; Action, Sécurité, Ethique Républicaines (ASER); Action des Chrétiens pour l’Abolition de la Torture (ACAT); Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT); and Human Rights Watch—have highlighted that the United States and Europe are supplying arms. Saudi Arabia and the UAE regularly top the table of arms purchases from France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, and Sweden. Several NGOs have unilaterally initiated legal proceedings in national courts and the International Criminal Court, hoping to demonstrate the exporting country’s criminal responsibility, but the law remains hard to interpret."
The arms industry is not only part of a maximising profit system, but it is also an arm to protect partners and allies.
In his 9th proposition of criticisms of capitalism in Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright states that capitalism "in a world of nationa states, fuels militarism and imperialism." Thus we not only see major capitalist states fuelling wars, but also tiny Bulgaria.
Why is Europe Fuelling the War in Yemen?
The arms industry is not only part of a maximising profit system, but it is also an arm to protect partners and allies.
In his 9th proposition of criticisms of capitalism in Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright states that capitalism "in a world of nationa states, fuels militarism and imperialism." Thus we not only see major capitalist states fuelling wars, but also tiny Bulgaria.
Why is Europe Fuelling the War in Yemen?