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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... Googled military spending by GDP
China spends more per dollar of GDP on the military - very interesting.
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
...apparently if we look the other way, it'll go away.
Like these interesting/surprising examples:
Countries with the most windpower generation in GWs:http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displays...
Public acceptance of evolution: http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displays...
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
Isn't Europe helping out the US in Afghanistan ? Can you cite a source stating that US is defending Europe ?
Yes, but that doesn't tell us which way the net benefits are going, it just says that Europe isn't completely dead-weight.
> Can you cite a source stating that US is defending Europe ?
Defending Europe is NATO's reason for existence.
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
It is more complicated than that. For example: bombings in Madrids. Would the Arab savages have targeted Spain if it wouldn't have been allied with the US? And what about stupid American ideas like the wars in Iraq and Afganistan? This is all included in beeing "defended". That beeing said, I aknowledge the gist of your argument: Europeans have choosen to be "defended" by the US so they shouldn't complain about the b…
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
Isn't Europe helping out the US in Afghanistan ? Can you cite a source stating that US is defending Europe ?
Ohh, and US defending Europe, the best example: the cold war. It was decades of US military buildup largely to ensure they could invade or nuke eastern Europe if they invaded first. South Korea is another example of a military that is smaller because we keep a potential invader away.
The US's dominant roll in NATO makes this graph misleading. For decades, Europe has essentially had a subsidized military through alliance with the US. They complain about increased US influence, but it's actually directly caused by who is defending whom.
It is more complicated than that. For example: bombings in Madrids. Would the Arab savages have targeted Spain if it wouldn't have been allied with the US? And what about stupid American ideas like the wars in Iraq and Afganistan? This is all included in beeing "defended". That beeing said, I aknowledge the gist of your argument: Europeans have choosen to be "defended" by the US so they shouldn't complain about the b…
It's just that you can't look at spending and get a good picture of the militarization of the culture. That counts doubly true for smaller arms. The cost of a carrier group is roughly equal to giving every citizen a gun.
I see these all the time, but never a single "spenders by GDP" chart. What gives? Seems like that info's more relevant anyways - how would they spend money they don't have?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... Googled military spending by GDP