By launching the biggest bloody and predatory war in Europe in over 70 years, Putin's regime in Russia has dramatically spurred an arms race around the world. Instead of investing material resources in ensuring the development of new technologies that will contribute to more comfortable conditions for human life, the development of science, further space exploration, now many states are creating or acquiring the most deadly murder weapons that can protect, if necessary, the country from such bloody regimes. Of course, this is very sad.
I think the race among countries to acquire the new and the best cutting edge technologies in warfare has always been going on quietly and most times majorly overlooked. But with the launch of the war in Ukraine, tensions are mounting all over and funds that was supposed to have gone towards something productive and beneficial for the general populace has been sunk into the military.
Admittedly, wars and chaos would drastically increase the tensions that’s already heightened and cause nations to increase their military budget to help acquire new weapons of mass destruction and warfare. Of course, gun runners would also have fat pockets at the height of any war.
In addition, this situation accelerated the rearmament of many countries, especially in Europe, where there were still Soviet weapons, which were primarily provided to Ukraine to protect against Russian invasion. In return, they acquired the latest models of NATO weapons, which showed good results in this war. Also, many countries began to refuse supplies of Russian weapons, which turned out to be worse than NATO ones, and to order purchases from NATO countries.
Due to the fact that Russia began to openly threaten many states with war, in particular the Baltic countries and Poland, they also began to increase the size of their army and military equipment. The military factories of the NATO countries are operating at full capacity and for many years to come.
