US, UK, Turkey, and Croatia spending less (as % of GDP).
Poland seems spooked.
Finally, after all the polandball memes, Polan Strong. :’)
Well, you try living next to Russia…
Is this mislabeled ’reciprocal distance to Russia’-diagram?
Let’s invade Belgium!
I like how everyone rises in a collective “oh shit” and there are some almost insignificant drops form other countries and then turkey goes down like a brick
i feel like they didn’t actually lower spending, its just that inflation is so vicious that the budget shrunk from the inflation
also Lithuania is weird, they are neighbours of russia, after 2014s annexation of crimea i would have shit my pants and sounded all bells
I don’t understand this “based on **2015** prices and exchange rates” part. Did they take 2023 expenditures in local currency, exchanged it to USD using 2015 exchange rate and compared it to 2015 GDP number? Or how does it work exactly? Because the scenario I described looks weird as hell. IMHO 2023 numbers should be exchanged using current exchange rates and share of GDP should be checked against current GDP.
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US, UK, Turkey, and Croatia spending less (as % of GDP).
Poland seems spooked.
Finally, after all the polandball memes, Polan Strong. :’)
Well, you try living next to Russia…
Is this mislabeled ’reciprocal distance to Russia’-diagram?
Let’s invade Belgium!
I like how everyone rises in a collective “oh shit” and there are some almost insignificant drops form other countries and then turkey goes down like a brick
i feel like they didn’t actually lower spending, its just that inflation is so vicious that the budget shrunk from the inflation
also Lithuania is weird, they are neighbours of russia, after 2014s annexation of crimea i would have shit my pants and sounded all bells
I don’t understand this “based on **2015** prices and exchange rates” part. Did they take 2023 expenditures in local currency, exchanged it to USD using 2015 exchange rate and compared it to 2015 GDP number? Or how does it work exactly? Because the scenario I described looks weird as hell. IMHO 2023 numbers should be exchanged using current exchange rates and share of GDP should be checked against current GDP.