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no it is not getting cheaper, much propaganda bloomberg loves it
by anon1199022 3y ago
no it is not getting cheaper, much propaganda bloomberg loves it
- jafo1989 3y agoThanks for saving me a click.
- jschveibinz 3y agoActually, as a fraction of GDP, the defense budget is getting smaller as you can see here: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/military-spending-defense-budget https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili... Cheers.
- LewisVerstappen 3y agoWhy would you look at it as a % of GDP? Wouldnt a better comparison be inflation adjusted dollars?
- bushbaba 3y agoPercentage of gdp would better show what percentage of our resources and people time is being spent.
- LewisVerstappen 3y agoHmm yeah makes sense
- solardev 3y agoIt could also just reflect some other program getting more money
- anovikov 3y agoGood one, but in general, don't trust Macrotrends. Almost every number you can find on it is verifiably false. Sometimes the mistakes are ridiculous and laughable. Not sure who maintains this site, but it regularly produces nonsense. World Bank database is a much better resource. So is CIA factbook although making historical comparisons using it is inconvenient.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoPerhaps. Nonetheless it's ~10x Russia's[1] and ~3.5x China's. The majority of the the remaining Top 10 spenders are allies. It's not a matter of GDP, it's a matter of: exactly who and what necessitates such excess? And what is the associated opportunity cost? [1] And yet it didn't prevent Russia's quest for Ukraine.
- hedora 3y agoThe US was winning the shooting war in Ukraine the last time I checked (we may not technically be at war with Russia, but we are in most practical senses of the word).
- xyzelement 3y ago// The US was winning the shooting war How would we know? I live in the US but speak fluent Russian and have lots of family from Ukraine, and yet I don't feel like having access to all these perspectives enables me to have a sense for where the truth is. I can say that what we see in the west is not the whole story - lots of victories, footage of droned Russians, and an occasional reference to a fallen Ukrainians hero. In more pro-russian sources, you get exactly the opposite idea and visuals - lots of blown up Ukrainian and destroyed equipment. If you don't see that on regular basis and what I described sounds surprising, you are getting a very filtered view of what's going on. I can't claim where the truth is but I know the picture most westerners get by default is very rosy vs reality.
- philwelch 3y agoUkraine is still in the fight over eighteen months after an invasion that was planned to topple Kyiv in three days. I would say the Ukrainians probably deserve more credit than the United States for this outcome, but if you asked anyone in the winter of 2021/2022 to predict the outcome of a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine is doing much better than one would have reasonably expected.
- chrisco255 3y ago
- chrisco255 3y agoLooks like it wavers slightly between 3.5 and 4.5%, depending on whether they're actively invading a middle eastern country or not.