France’s Macron calls for major hike in defence spending: ‘To be free, we must be feared’

We should be spending less on military and private sector, and more on public education, healthcare and social safety at large

This reminded me of this quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower (the US president who warned against the military-industrial complex)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.