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The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined (www.pgpf.org)
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Source (2023-04-24): https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/04/the-united-states-spends-more-on-defense-than-the-next-10-countries-combined

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[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (41 children)

You think Freedom is free.

[–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (34 children)

This is really a bad chart, our military protects European countries which is why they don't have to pay as much for defense

Edit: not to imply we don't waste tons of money on boondoggles

[–] Pili@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's when you realize that some US Americans unironicaly believe that, that you understand how powerful the USA propaganda machine is.

[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a regular classic sadly, along with the other banger: "our US healthcare can't be free because we subsidize Europe's healthcare".

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah and it shouldn't make sense either. That logic makes the US a European colony.

[–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying we don't waste money on defense, and obviously a country with zero threats on its borders can afford to spend less on defense and more on health care, but this chart in particular is a bad way to convey this message

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I’m not saying we don’t waste money on defense, and obviously a country with zero threats on its borders can afford to spend less on defense and more on health care,

Don't we spend way more on health care than military? I read somewhere it is like 4 trillion per year over 4 times more than military. Honestly as sad as this sounds I don't think an extra trillion would improve the health care system in the US. Personally I think we have plenty of money going to health care, it is just doesn't seem to be going towards actually healing people.

[–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't we spend more because the industry is extremely inflated? But yeah if it's something everyone needs it should be subsidized and provided as a public service

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