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This exhaustive podcast on our article “Global Arms Trade: Spreading Conflict across the World” traces the undercurrents of the global small arms trade, showing how it has powered wars from the jungles of Africa to the highlands of Central Asia, the alleys of Latin America, and the streets of the Balkans. With over 80% of armed conflict casualties stemming from small arms, this black and gray arms network fueled by surplus weapons, corrupt officials, ideological proxy wars, and the global Military-Industrial Complex has shaped the modern world in blood and fire. The article reveals how state and non-state actors, often supplied by the very powers later claiming to fight them, become pawns in a worldwide matrix of violence and control.

From CIA's Cold War-era support for Afghan Mujahideen to Gaddafi's weapons finding their way into Syrian rebel hands, and from Albanian depot lootings to Myanmar’s black-market arms sales, the trade is unrelenting. Key players like Russia, China, Eastern Europe, and the U.S. figure prominently as both legal and illicit suppliers. This comprehensive chronicle reveals the devastating human and geopolitical cost of the unregulated small arms economy and the cyclical nature of armed strife it perpetuates.

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