The arms trade is a strange business. Selling a $100 gun is sometimes illegal, but buying a $100 million fighter jet is mostly legal. The three largest trades in the world have completely different living environments: sneaky, open and on the edge.
Why do these three have such a strong transaction volume? They have two things in common: high profits and unlimited markets. Sinopec’s 2010 operating income of RMB 190 billion, Lockheed Martin and Boeing were US$4.5 billion and US$6.8 billion, respectively, and the world’s annual drug trade volume exceeded US$800 billion. Comparing these three major trades from a single company, only oil has the ace company, but only oil has the largest legal share. Oil is the blood of industry, and drug dependence gives it an endless market. As for the arms market, the source and the never-ending conflict.
Saudi Arabia looked at Israel and Iran with a guilty conscience, and once shot 60 billion; Raptorsky just took off, and Ah San threw money to Dad Maozi; Vietnam and the Philippines flashed in the South China Sea, Varyag and Jiangnan shipyards were busy. There is no bigger market in the world. Even if human technology goes backwards 5,000 years, there will be merchants selling all kinds of more lethal stones and sticks.
Where does the profit come from? From the increase in value. The value of wheat in a ton of fields has increased after turning into flour, and the increase in cost is higher than the increase in cost, which creates profits. The value of a poppy is very small. After extraction and refining, the unit of measurement has changed from ton to gram, and the tens of thousands of times increase in value has created terrible profits. But it is even more arsenal than drugs and oil.
The cost of a bullet is only 20 cents, but when it hits the right person's head at the right time, its value becomes 20 million dollars, such as the one in Kennedy's head. Its growth point lies in a human life. Such a huge increase cannot be easily operated by any individual enterprise, and such a large ticket can naturally only be played by the country.
At the same time, it is precisely because of this value that the arms can last forever. People don't want to make money with human life, but they have to do so. It is a demon, but unfortunately, it is a necessary demon to the world.
Do we want arms? No, be harmonious. But since the birth of mankind, war has always been the main theme of history. Real world peace will never come, and arms will naturally always be an evergreen tree. Although it is watered with blood, it can produce endless fruits.
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