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Now cross reference that with military spending…
USA: 👀
Personnel is much more apples to apples. Comparing spending between two nations muddies the waters.
I assume you’re commenting on US spending, but consider that other countries don’t have to pay US wages and benefits to it’s soldiers, contractors, and manufacturers. If we could buy our weapons from India, recruit our soldiers from China, and build ships in S.Korea our defense budget would be much smaller without having to ration a single fighterjet.
Did you know that we spend almost 4X as much on social programs than we do on the military today?
What’s stopping the USA from building (some) ships in South Korea? Many navies all over the world use foreign designs or foreign builders.
Given that Service is mandatory in China, that number seems kind of low.
Its VERY low, China has mandatory service, however due to high number of volunteers, the mandatory service is not enforced.
I think we need to update the Russian numbers. If they’re not defecting, they’re going into a meat grinder…
Imagine if all those resources were put into something more productive and progressive?
