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Cmon murica, the rest of the world combined is now spending more than just the US. How could this happen?

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what is sad, is that for 10 perfect year between 1990 and 2000 we could believe that humanity was on its way to world peace…now we’re back to total annihilation program

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A specific event in 2001 first triggered the growth, then a couple of jackass presidents made it worse.

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Netenyahu, Putin, Biden and Modi should be in chains in the darkest deepest prison cell humanity can create.

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biden isn’t really on that list. essentially it should be a rotating slot for whoever is elected US president

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Exactly the years that OG Millennials went from small children to adults, and then off to college to saddle ourselves with debt for a future that would never exist. Yay

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After the end of the Cold War, there’s a clear trend in US spending where it ratchets down every year during Democratic administrations and up again during Republican administrations. The only exceptions are the first two years of the Obama admin, after he inherited Bush’s wars, and 2023, after Russia invaded Ukraine

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Ugh, that Reagan bump

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7 points

pretty clear what nation represents the greatest threat to humanity

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4 points

North Korea?

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Obligator y/s

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7 points

Can we get this adjusted by CPI?

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I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales

Admittedly I don’t know have a better idea either so… Guess I’m hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in

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Yeah, what this graph mostly tells you is that things cost more in the US.

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