Excessive military expenditures
have contributed significantly
to the national debt of many developing countries.
No doubt: Between armament and hunger
does exist a long denied correlation.
Everyone who knows
that in the Third World sheer poverty
forces many million people into the overexploitation of nature,
who knows that the deserts grow,
and the tropical rain forests are radically cut down,
can not abdicate his share of global responsibility.
I don't know
if the Europeans will understand this early enough.
But I know one thing:
If they don't understand it
there will be no suceessful European perspectives either.