Quite a few more interesting graphs/tables if you want to look through the source. [This one regarding how the money is spent is quite interesting](https://i.imgur.com/KibmGbx.png).
Slowly, but surely…
Wonder if Putin is manipulating military stock prices
Imagine if only we (Greece) were to spend that extra 1%-2% of gdp to improve education, infrastructure etc…
Lets go baltics
We do spend that much, but we got less than Luxembourg for it. So much corruption in our military procurement, oh god.
The most exponential growth have Latvia and Lithuania. Even sky-rocket growth, I should say
What do you think, 2 per cent is enough?
So much money wasted on the useless military instead of solving the biggest threat for the humanity: the climate crisis.
USA used to spend 9% at parts of the cold war
Wait, countries don’t have to have spending according to guideline?
Why Greece is investing so much in military?
Current greek government are idiots enough to believe they will get allies by throwing away money to equipment they can’t really have use for… Leading to an equipment race with Turkey, a country that also suffers in terms of its economy but has greater military, industrial and tech capacity compared to Greece. Mitsotakis is dangerous and should be ousted!
Imagine if us just cut their military spending one day.
What a nice list of NATO countries… jup… definetely nothing missing there…
Interesting how, if you ignore the top 4, the spending seems to be proportional to the countries distance from the Russian border.
It’s sad thinking that a positive trend in military expenditures is seen as a good thing by people here….
Curious, what caused the increase spending in the European nations? Was it Trump’s admonishment? Or just readjustment in the face of increased tensions with Russia?
I think 2014 might be a bad start point, I think a lot of increase happened around 2018, when Europe realized that US might not always be there.
I know several countries upped their spend and started to replace very costly gear.
Luxembourg be like:
Ok I’ll try…
… happy now?
So they all increased it, most of them with big increases, except the US but they’re already way over 2%.
Is this inflation?
Spain will likely go below 1% again this year if tourism recovers.
i dont know why but i feel like greece build their army because of another nato member
So the country at the end of the table, Germany spends 1.53% and Russia spends 4.3% on military. Russia spendings is getting significantly higher level of corruption (read more money wasted) but bottom line it’s the same 60-70B USD. Worth remembering that DE does much less geo distribution, less logistics,smaller army, no excessively expensive projects (ie nukes, space program, international expeditions in Transdniestra or Syria). In the end of the day DE has another ~3% of GDP to spent on making sure it’s economy grows bigger/decreases dependency in fossil fuels/people getting better healthcare. East of Germany everyone should be armed to the teeth but PL, HU, CZ,SK, RO economies combined are size of RU so the 2% spent on professional army is more or less equivalent of RU spending 4%. RU will depopulate faster than all of Central Europe and it’s economy will be insignificant in 20 years when renewables will be more popular/cheaper. All in all Romanians, Hungarians and Poles should hold on to their territories for another 10ish years and start building electric cars and solar panel factories for German companies.
The NATO guideline commitment is for 2024, those still under 2% have still a bit of time to make a bigger effort.
Sad to see that we’ve entered a new period of mobilization. I guess the prospering times are over for Europe.
Without their GDPs themselves this is a really weird chart. “Germany and France DWARFED by Greek military spending” read the headline lol
Interestingly enough we have Trump and his NATO policies to thank for that to a large extent.
> 2.01%
Minimal compliance is our national specialty.
The 2% guideline is a waste of money if you ask me. It should have been lowered to 1% long ago. We are outspending all other non-nato states by a gigantic margin these days.
Why don’t the richest Nordic countries pay more?
Not gonna lie, I’m a little embarrassed and ashamed about Canada.
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[Source](https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2021/6/pdf/210611-pr-2021-094-en.pdf)
Quite a few more interesting graphs/tables if you want to look through the source. [This one regarding how the money is spent is quite interesting](https://i.imgur.com/KibmGbx.png).
Slowly, but surely…
Wonder if Putin is manipulating military stock prices
Imagine if only we (Greece) were to spend that extra 1%-2% of gdp to improve education, infrastructure etc…
Lets go baltics
We do spend that much, but we got less than Luxembourg for it. So much corruption in our military procurement, oh god.
The most exponential growth have Latvia and Lithuania. Even sky-rocket growth, I should say
What do you think, 2 per cent is enough?
So much money wasted on the useless military instead of solving the biggest threat for the humanity: the climate crisis.
USA used to spend 9% at parts of the cold war
Wait, countries don’t have to have spending according to guideline?
Why Greece is investing so much in military?
Current greek government are idiots enough to believe they will get allies by throwing away money to equipment they can’t really have use for… Leading to an equipment race with Turkey, a country that also suffers in terms of its economy but has greater military, industrial and tech capacity compared to Greece. Mitsotakis is dangerous and should be ousted!
Imagine if us just cut their military spending one day.
What a nice list of NATO countries… jup… definetely nothing missing there…
Interesting how, if you ignore the top 4, the spending seems to be proportional to the countries distance from the Russian border.
It’s sad thinking that a positive trend in military expenditures is seen as a good thing by people here….
Curious, what caused the increase spending in the European nations? Was it Trump’s admonishment? Or just readjustment in the face of increased tensions with Russia?
I think 2014 might be a bad start point, I think a lot of increase happened around 2018, when Europe realized that US might not always be there.
I know several countries upped their spend and started to replace very costly gear.
Luxembourg be like:
Ok I’ll try…
… happy now?
So they all increased it, most of them with big increases, except the US but they’re already way over 2%.
Is this inflation?
Spain will likely go below 1% again this year if tourism recovers.
https://ibb.co/b1m6MQj
i dont know why but i feel like greece build their army because of another nato member
So the country at the end of the table, Germany spends 1.53% and Russia spends 4.3% on military. Russia spendings is getting significantly higher level of corruption (read more money wasted) but bottom line it’s the same 60-70B USD. Worth remembering that DE does much less geo distribution, less logistics,smaller army, no excessively expensive projects (ie nukes, space program, international expeditions in Transdniestra or Syria). In the end of the day DE has another ~3% of GDP to spent on making sure it’s economy grows bigger/decreases dependency in fossil fuels/people getting better healthcare. East of Germany everyone should be armed to the teeth but PL, HU, CZ,SK, RO economies combined are size of RU so the 2% spent on professional army is more or less equivalent of RU spending 4%. RU will depopulate faster than all of Central Europe and it’s economy will be insignificant in 20 years when renewables will be more popular/cheaper. All in all Romanians, Hungarians and Poles should hold on to their territories for another 10ish years and start building electric cars and solar panel factories for German companies.
The NATO guideline commitment is for 2024, those still under 2% have still a bit of time to make a bigger effort.
Sad to see that we’ve entered a new period of mobilization. I guess the prospering times are over for Europe.
Without their GDPs themselves this is a really weird chart. “Germany and France DWARFED by Greek military spending” read the headline lol
Interestingly enough we have Trump and his NATO policies to thank for that to a large extent.
> 2.01%
Minimal compliance is our national specialty.
The 2% guideline is a waste of money if you ask me. It should have been lowered to 1% long ago. We are outspending all other non-nato states by a gigantic margin these days.
Why don’t the richest Nordic countries pay more?
Not gonna lie, I’m a little embarrassed and ashamed about Canada.