I did a quick search and couldn’t find foreign weapons sales by country, but the top two are the US and Russia. The articles on German sales, which only listed individual sales, give the impression Germany’s sales are WAY lower than those of the US and Russia.
(The taxpayer finances most of US sales by giving away credit vouchers called foreign military sales or FMS. Foreign governments have to buy from the US, so it’s free money, sort of. It’s an employment package and keeps US purchase prices lower.)
No worse than the U.S. Russia, China, Sweden, Israel and most every country that is capable of building military hardware...
So what else are they to do...The people have to eat and most of the worlds decent manufacturing jobs have gone to the now ultra-wealthy China...
We gave China our jobs and we now send our money to China to buy the things we used to make...So the World now has to borrow its money back from China just to stay afloat without any real way to pay it back...
Well, if you have to buy military gear the Germans build some pretty good stuff including arguably the currently best main battle tank. German gear might be the best bang for the buck when you consider maintainability and longevity.
Germany should continue arming allies of the West.