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It 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 play
by JimboOmega 7y ago
It 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 7y agoThe SU was also much smaller than NATO wrt to population, it's reversed with China.
- Areading314 7y 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 7y 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 7y 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)