U.S. Military spending is the size of the next 9 countries combined

[Tennis]

Yeah, but last year's budget was like that, and the one before... etc. Etc.

The military spending budget didn't just magically balloon this year.

What the...
By this line of thought, slavery would have never been abolished.

[Deletedaccount1]

Question would you be more happy if any of those names on the left would be swapped with the one on the right columm?

lmao this is true

[Revik]

I think we can all agree that NATO and the UN doesn't do crap at least not without the US military taking the lead. I mean sure they do 'humanitarian' duties but sometimes you have to get dirty and savage but the prissy NATO and UN can be bothered to do such dirty work.

[Belize]

Way too slowly. 40 + mil Americans are living under the poverty line. That's more than the entire population of Canada for context.

Canada isn't a very good comparison for population tbh. Over half is an unpopulated frozen wasteland.

[Deleted]

Tennis pick one name on the left side and switch the one on the right with it.

Which one would you pick?

[Deletedaccount1]

Saudi Arabia with America's military budget

oh boy

[Belize]

What the...
By this line of thought, slavery would have never been abolished.

How are the two even comparable...

[Deletedaccount1]

How are the two even comparable...

minimum wage is modern day slavery you bourgeois scum

[Independent voter]

The US defense budget is the almost the size of the German national budget if I'm reading the charts right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ets_by_country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_expenditures

We can easily afford such a defense budget and it allows countries like the EU and Canada to spend very little on their defense budgets. Small militaries mean reduced chances for war. It's like we're giving our allies free money. In return we get peace.

[Deletedaccount1]

I was kidding, don't infract me

[Enthusiastic Steward]

Do we have a comparison breakdown on what percentage of the US vs other countries military budget is for research? I mean, when my wife was getting her PhD she was working on a project to remove pharmaceutical waste from water because the newer drugs being developed don't get removed by standard wastewater treatment, which isn't exactly "military" but was actually being funded by the US government at a military research facility. They put a lot of money into things that wouldn't fit your classic definition of "military spending", and I'd be interested to see what the percentages out of the total spending are being used for.

Also does this account for the fact that the US supplies a lot of military hardware to other countries? Like we spend the money to build it, but then sell it. Is that money coming back being counted to offset expenditures?

[Tennis]

How are the two even comparable...

You're saying if things stay the same it's fine..

[Deletedaccount1]

You're saying if things stay the same it's fine..

No, we just don't need to #feelthebern over night

[Deleted]

The US defense budget is the almost the size of the German national budget if I'm reading the charts right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ets_by_country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_expenditures

We can easily afford such a defense budget and it allows countries like the EU and Canada to spend very little on their defense budgets. Small militaries mean reduced chances for war. It's like we're giving our allies free money. In return we get peace.

1,664,000,000,000 vs 581,000,000,000 so no

[TITAN308]

Being the best comes with a price tag.

/flamesuit & runs

[Deleted]

Tennis pick one name on the left side and switch the one on the right with it.

Which one would you pick?

Germany

it's time for the fourth Reich

[Tennis]

When half the world hates you, and the other half wants you to police it, you don't have much of a choice

This is far from reality.
Do you actually believe it's this simple buddy?

[DarkAmbient]

Freedom doesn't come cheap.

[Deletedaccount1]

1,664,000,000,000 vs 581,000,000,000 so no

I think he meant proportionally

[ellieg]

Im A-OK with this. U.S. military provides a ton of jobs. There are chemical and biological research factories and they innovate a lot of things. Its not just soldiers and missiles.