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We should match our military spending with China's, that should do it. EDIT: I hope everyone realizes this is sarcastic. We already spend more than China and t
by noobermin 8y ago
We should match our military spending with China's, that should do it.
EDIT: I hope everyone realizes this is sarcastic. We already spend more than China and then some.
- jayd16 8y agoTo be fair, this is projecting power in Asia but the US projects power globally. That said, I'm no fan of this military budget.
- JimboOmega 8y agoIt kind of worked with the Soviet Union. They tried to keep up, but just didn't have the economic power to do it. It won't with China, because China isn't playing the force projecting world superpower game like the SU was.
- luckylion 8y agoThe SU was also much smaller than NATO wrt to population, it's reversed with China.
- Areading314 8y agoNATO countries have a comparable population to China, 938 million, according to this: http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/nato-countries/ http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/nato-countries/
- luckylion 8y agoYeah, it's not a 2:1 thing, but 40% more is still significant. NATO countries are much more industrialized than China (the same applied when the SU was the opponent), so that certainly helps.
- jeffbax 8y agoI can't say for sure, but I have a hard time believing a lot of our spend is less efficient than other nations (just like our spend on most sectors of the economy that are heavily government-involved, like healthcare and education where we get less bang for the buck)