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economic crisis in Europe and the U.S. spend millions of dollars attacking Libya


Leandro Albani / Mariátegui
26/03/1911

In economic crisis, both the U.S. and Great Britain, France and Spain began Last Saturday a military invasion of Libya and rejection is of growing worldwide.

unleashed bombings involving civilian deaths, though the Pentagon denies it, and an increasingly clear aim of getting at whatever price the oil in the North African nation.

But the deployment of imperialist forces is also beginning to move the gears of the "business of war", but internally the countries leading the attack go through serious economic and social difficulties.

With unemployment rates rarely seen in history, as the case of United States (more than 9%) and Spain (20%), and endorsing budgets and cuts in social spending to alleviate the deficit, the Western powers did not stop the structural problems and sparked a war of aggression that involves using millions of dollars.

Both the FY 2012 budget submitted by the United States President Barack Obama, as announced by the UK Minister of Economy, George Osborne, for the same period, including reductions in sectors such as education and health, and increased taxes.

For the U.S. government, one of the few budget items that dramatically increased is related to defense, which amounts to 671,000 million dollars, but the Pentagon still requires U.S. $ 708,300 million, where 160 million are earmarked for Iraq and Afghanistan invasions

In the British case will suffer a decline in wages for two years, will freeze the social benefits for children and expected reductions in jobs in the public sector.

National Journal magazine estimated that in the first day of attacks against Libya, the U.S. spent more than $ 100 million and that the operation could exceed 1,000 million.

The publication explained that the U.S. ships fired on the first day a total of 112 long-range Tomahawk missiles, the cost per unit ranges between one million and 1.5 million dollars.

Meanwhile, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments calculated that the "initial phase" of the invasion, the Imperial forces could be spending between 400 million and 800 million dollars.

National Journal said that the cost of monitoring the no-fly zone would be between 30 million and 100 million dollars a week.

If the attacks are maintained for a long period, the Pentagon may request additional funds to the U.S. Congress, beyond its annual budget.

Meanwhile, the BBC noted that each missile launched by Britain cost $ 700,000, while the output of the Tornado fighter jet is around $ 40,000.

If the statements of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates are true about the military attack on Libya did not have a deadline, spending will begin to erode the already low budgets, but will be a new impetus to the military-industrial complex which is still billing for its "good service" in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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