Disarm the world by agreement and close down one of the biggest contributors to global warming.

ONE HUNDRED ARGUMENTS FOR WORLD DISARMAMENT.

1. Weapon based wars have killed two hundred million people in the 20th century.

2. Military encounters have produced more than 200m serious lifetime injuries.

3. Arms destroy normal trust in international and domestic relationships.

4. Military and War CO2 generation is intense – probably 5-10% of total world CO2.

4. WW1 was caused by the escalation of arms, not territory or any other factor.

5. Western military colonialism taught that arms rule around the world at horrific cost.

6. Soldiers on one side shoot soldiers on the other, and vice versa. It is a silly policy.

7. Arms companies sell to anyone, largely irrespective of the dangers.

8. Arms companies need wars. Their business depends on it, and they get them.

9. Wars have caused trauma, PTSD, on a vast scale – more than a billion in a hundred years.

10. Those traumatized also cause their own hate and destruction. Hitler was one of them.

11. Weapons have escalated in destruction through technologies of increasing horror.

12. Gas was an horrific death in WW1. We have disarmed the world of gas weapons.

13. We recruit soldiers who might die. The elite running wars usually survive.

14. We ennoble soldiers’ deaths through patriotism, but their killing was a waste.

15. Since 1900 about 5% of total world GDP has gone to the military. It produces no good.

16. Since 1900 c 5% of world GDP has been used repairing war destruction. A vast waste.

17. Militarism has skewed science and technology in largely useless directions.

18. Arms companies lied about Dreadnoughts to help start WW1. They frequently lie.

19. Arms companies bribed Japan’s military away from Democracy and towards Fascism.

20. Military colonialism undermined real free trade among the nations.

21. Britain taught natives militarism. Afghan tribesmen got 140,000 rifles before 1914.

22. Early arms firms – Krupp, Zaharoff – went direct to rulers and by-passed democracy.

23. Always arms firms promote fear, creating false antagonisms – the “Hun invasion”.

24. Rulers who trust arms distance from democracy and accountability.

25. Arms cost lots and Armies loot wealth the loser pays. Two wrongs.

26. Militarists promise to win wars. Always all sides lose wars; the promise fails.

27. Wars tend to be long. You are never home before Christmas.

28. Wars provoke retaliation. One side starts them, but they can last a century.

29. 1870, 1914 and 1939 are linked in German-French history. Trust broken, continues.

30. Arms are normally backed by the ideology, “We are Right”, when we are not.

31. Jesus’ emphasis on not fearing others is proved right. Weapons are fear not love.

32. In War families, marriages, parenting, childhood, education, joy and love perish.

33. In War communities, property, common wealth, infrastructure, history are destroyed.

34. In War children die before their parents. The Young are killed, injured, hurt, absent.

35. War destroys public health – 50-100m died in 1918-20 of Spanish flu. People are weak.

36. Arms companies really want wars. They are bonanza time for them.

37. Armies are always external, against others, and internal, against domestic opposition.

38. Arms involve the belief that if you kill them, the problem goes away. It does not.

39. Arms inflate the egos of rulers and nations towards, “My will be done.”

40. Disarmament, fair and trustworthy, is easy. The militarists aim to make it hard.

41. Military leaders justify conquering and killing by being infallible.

42. Militarism always rubbishes those they attack. It is inherently self-righteous.

43. Arms not used, build up and precipitates towards war. Arms always tend to War.

44. The World Disarmament Conference at Geneva in 1932 addressed armed conflict.

45. Accepting the Hoover Proposals for disarmament would have stopped Hitler.

46. They were strangled behind the scenes by the militarists and British Cabinet.

47. Since they became known as the Merchants of Death (1934) arms firms hide.

48. Arms firms bribe to sell their wares – everywhere most of the time. Arms are oversold.

49. Mussolini was backed by the arms firm, Ansaldo. Arms made Il Duce.

50. Hitler was backed by the steel/arms firm, Thyssen. Arms made the Fuhrer.

51. Hitler’s central vision was to fight. The Nazi/Fascist vision is fighting.

52. Fascism was a problem in France, the US, Britain and everywhere – pushing arms.

53. Appeasement involved British elite backing Hitler and the arms faction even in 1938.

54. WW2 was caused by militarists and the push for arms sales, not by failing to arm.

55. Often arms are sold on borrowed money. The US lent Hitler vast amounts to buy arms.

56. War debts often cripple economies for decades – Germany in 1918, Britain in 1945.

57. Wars generate active hate – murders, the Holocaust and other genocides.

58. A reasonable estimate is that WW2 cost the world a total ten years of economic activity.

59. Weapons have become mass killers – machine guns, shells, bombs, fire-bombing.

60. We love weapons and hang on to them to retain the power to kill in false belief.

61. Nuclear weapons – a “race” with Germany, a quick defeat of Japan, a US possession.

62. The UK and US deserted the USSR, who lost 50X more people and did most fighting.

63. At the end of wars, arms companies face a slump. So they engineer a new enemy.

64. Espionage around militarism has become a useless world industry wasting billions.

65. The Red Scares and McCarthyite accusations demonised the new enemy.

66. In 1945 the Fascists and Nazis went underground

67. Offence as defence is dangerous. Really you plan to attack.

68. The West is hypocritical. It will not fight one another, but sells arms for others to fight.

69. The USSR was not behind the Korean War. It was a national spat seen as a red threat.

70. The Vietnam War was a mistake, fought to fund the arms companies and Monsanto.

71. In war the truth suffers on all sides. Propaganda becomes normal and enemies evil.

72. In wars mistakes always happen – bombing, equipment, mass deaths

73. Disarmament cost nothing; it takes out the useless tools of aggression.

74. Military and nuclear costs explain most or all of states’ national debt.

75. Proportionate disarmament on all sides puts none at risk with decreasing threats.

76. The peace dividend moves all those resources from war and destruction to good uses.

77. We live in an integrated trading world. Th idea of international rivalries is daft.

78. The strongest powers fear the most, because they have departed justice.

79. Mutual Assured Destruction was MAD in the 80s, but we still renew nuclear weapons.

80. The arms industry got rid of Carter in 1980 and damages politicians it does not like.

81. 1% of nuclear weapons would destroy the earth’s stability, but we still produce more.

82. Arms for oil has made the middle east a war zone.

83. The US through the CIA has taught the world terrorism through “covert actions”.

84. We are now arming space – another futile escalation of militarism.

85. The arms industry destroys, yet we are backing it towards bigger destruction. Lunacy.

86. The new US/China/Russia “superpower” confrontation is silly and pointless.

87. The militarists control the media; so the truth about militarism is always suppressed.

88. Superpowers become rotten at the heart – leaders who want to be rich, exploit, kill.

89. Disarmament kindles friendship, co-operation, appreciation and understanding.

90. We must disarm the world if global warming is to be addressed – saves 5% CO2 min.

91. Disarming saves some 10% of world GDP – arms, war cost, economic relationships.

92. Disarm the world and military dictators and domestic tyranny will melt away.

93. Disarm the world and the United Nations will be real.

94. Jesus pointed out that we make peace. We must actively disarm the world.

95. Disarming the world will prevent nuclear superpower war.

96. Disarming the world will end refugees, failed states and lift up the poor and weak.

97. Disarming the world opens up peace for all beyond our understanding

98. Disarming the world allows truth to rule over force.

99. Disarming the world brings about the healing of the nations.

100. Disarming the world unlocks the door to loving one another.