An interesting Top 20 list for your Sunday afternoon:
1 United States $ 583,283,000,0002 France $ 74,690,470,000
3 United Kingdom $ 68,911,000,000
4 China $ 59,000,000,000
5 Germany $ 44,712,300,000
6 Japan $ 41,750,000,000
7 Russia $ 40,000,000,000
8 Italy $ 32,600,000,000
9 Saudi Arabia $ 31,050,000,000
10 South Korea $ 27,400,000,000
11 India $ 26,500,000,000
12 Brazil $ 25,396,731,055
13 Australia $ 20,727,710,000
14 Canada $ 17,150,002,540
15 Spain $ 15,792,207,000
16 Turkey $ 15,166,000,000
17 Netherlands $ 12,000,000,000
18 Poland $ 10,838,000,000
19 Republic of China $ 10,500,000,000
20 Israel $ 9,444,000,000
Could someone please explain to me how this makes any sense? We spend nearly 5x numbers 2 and 3 combined, and they are allies. And we spend nearly as much as the entire rest of the world combined? Do we really believe that the rest of the world hates us that much? Really?
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