Global Military Spending Hits $2.9 Trillion as World Prepares for War

Global military expenditure reached $2.887 trillion in 2025 — the eleventh consecutive year of growth — as Europe, China, Russia, Taiwan and the United States simultaneously expand weapons production, defence infrastructure and strategic capabilities at a pace unseen since the Cold War. The convergence of multiple armed build-ups across Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific creates precisely the conditions Scripture describes preceding the end-times: nations arming against nations, with the potential for cascading regional conflicts to ignite a wider global war. Jesus warned that wars and rumours of wars would mark the beginning of birth pains, and the simultaneous militarisation of the world's major powers signals that those contractions are intensifying.