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![“80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cc9/amartya-sen-2518_armament_80-percent-of-the-export-of-armament-in_2619495.jpg)
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