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[TomVilmer]

69. USA spends nine times more than Russia

Same numbers can be selected in so many different ways, but none of them looks good for USA - unless you like full focus on military solutions. With numbers based on NATO sources, the five biggest military spenders in 2015 were the USA, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the UK. USA used 596 billion dollars and Russia 66 billion dollars - that is nine times less, not including the rest of NATO.

For Defence expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product from the last eight years, we could be happy that it has fallen from 4.7 to 3.4. Or sad, that it is still so high compared to others like Denmark with three times lower spending. Those numbers looks worse as Defence expenditures per capita, which for United States is between 1900 to 2500 dollars - the Danish numbers again three times lower.

USA is pushing Denmark for higher military spending, and with the Danish decision to buy F-35, it will happen. My hope is that these fighter jets will rust on the ground, when their too complex systems are broken down. So much of the military spending is fixed into these mistakes, so nobody in NATO could then afford more costly wars - and we can finally have some peaceful solutions.