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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Oh, quick math looks like 2% of 2.7 trillion GDP = ~$54 billion a year. Our spending is $467 billion, so that's more than 10% a year to defence. Not sure I can agree with that priority...
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FWIW I did some quick calculations of other countries (Latvia and Germany) and yes, 9-10% of actual spending seems to be what they would need to do to meet the 2% of GDP.
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