NATOs best friends: Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, South Korea, Ireland, Taiwan, and Ukraine. There are certainly many other countries who would never attack NATO as well but I choose those based on subjective criteria for their particular closeness as I perceive it
Worldwide military spending: $1.981 trillion (2.3% of world GDP)
“NATO’s best friends”, I’m assuming that would be Australia, South Korea and Japan.
China’s numbers do not include some indicators that western countries include. When tou factor that, and adjust manpower costs to a relative value, its military has a bigger spending than the US
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source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Military Expenditure Database, https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-spending-by-country
visualization: Google spreadsheet
NATOs best friends: Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, South Korea, Ireland, Taiwan, and Ukraine. There are certainly many other countries who would never attack NATO as well but I choose those based on subjective criteria for their particular closeness as I perceive it
Worldwide military spending: $1.981 trillion (2.3% of world GDP)
God damn Russia is garbage comparatively
[No allies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gsHoe9OGdc)
Who are NATO’s best friends?
“NATO’s best friends”, I’m assuming that would be Australia, South Korea and Japan.
China’s numbers do not include some indicators that western countries include. When tou factor that, and adjust manpower costs to a relative value, its military has a bigger spending than the US