It is, but what people omit is that the energy is protecting the 14th largest currency in the world. For fiat currencies military is providing protrction of th

It is, but what people omit is that the energy is protecting the 14th largest currency in the world. For fiat currencies military is providing protrction of that value with other things, so it's quite hard to compare the enrrgy needed by other countries to protect their currency (Marco Polo was a great Netflix series showing what happens to a currency when the military is defeated).