#arms-race

#arms-race

Annual military spending is rising globally at its steepest level since the Cold War. And after a break of more than 30 years, the United States says it might restart testing nuclear weapons.

In its first comments responding to the deal, Pyongyang said the submarine deal was a "dangerous attempt at confrontation." The agreement is a "serious development that destabilizes the military security situation in the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula and causes the situation of impossible nuclear control in the global sphere," said state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Drone sightings, threats and an arms race raise spectre of war. After nearly four years of war between Kyiv and Moscow, fighting is heating up on the front lines of eastern Ukraine. But with drones spotted at sensitive sites across the European Union, its leaders have declared Russia is fighting a hybrid war beyond Ukraine's borders. They say the bloc will protect every centimetre of its territory, as member states scale up military spending to heights not seen for decades.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world is in the most destructive arms race in history as he calls on the international community to act against Russia now, asserting in his address to the United Nations General Assembly that President Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. Ukraine is only the first, and now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries, and Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York.

We also mourn the Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska. She was brutally killed with a knife here in America, the very country where she was seeking refuge from Russia's war. And almost every day, when we open the news, we see headlines about violent attacks happening all around the world. Most of it is done with weapons. People are already used to it.

Well, they're wrong. It's about as close to perfect as you can have in terms of real production.