The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history
For the first time, analysts at the thinktank recorded a rise in military outlay in all five geographical regions: Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania and the Americas.
Two Thousand Billion is not a number I’m capable of conceptualizing.
- 16.67 Apollo Programs
- 3,289.47 Hover Dams
- 4.01 Interstate Highway Systems
- 381 years of running the US space shuttle program
- 325,333 human-days running experiments on ISS
- 821,548,821,550 school lunches for students in the UK
- 78.92 Three Gourges Dams
- 84,311,344.93 2023 full loaded Nissan Leafs
Does that help?
So the USA is only about 1/3 of the global total. Nothing out of the ordinary going on here …
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For the first time, analysts at the thinktank recorded a rise in military outlay in all five geographical regions: Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania and the Americas.
Since 2014, when Russia first invaded Crimea and the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, the US has been shifting its focus from counter-insurgency operations and asymmetric warfare to “developing new weapon systems that could be used in a potential conflict with adversaries with advanced military capabilities”, according to Sipri’s report.
Russia, India, Saudi Arabia and the UK – the largest spender in central and western Europe after a 7.9% year-on-year increase – follow in Sipri’s league table.
With spending at 5.9% of GDP, equivalent to 16% of the Russian government’s total expenditure, 2023 marked the highest levels recorded since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Expenditure in the Middle East rose by 9% to an estimated $200bn, making it the region with the highest military spend as a proportion of GDP in the world at 4.2%, followed by Europe (2.8%), Africa (1.9%), Asia and Oceania (1.7%) and the Americas (1.2%).
Diego Lopes da Silva, a senior researcher at Sipri, said: “The use of the military to suppress gang violence has been a growing trend in the region for years as governments are either unable to address the problem using conventional means or prefer immediate – often more violent – responses.”
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Russia informed the world the time of global (relative) peace is coming to a close. And nobody wants to be left holding the bag.
If global peace is out, nuclear winter is in
Great powers have directly fought eachother in third locations on multiple occasions without nukes coming into play. Additionally, nukes are even less useful than they used to be, as advances in precision guided munitions have taken many of their cold war roles. There is no reason to think nuclear winter is the likely outcome.
Sounds like a lot of pollution and human suffering
Yeah, I wish Russia wouldn’t try and take people’s stuff. And I hope China doesn’t start trying. And Israel and Iran going at it is so stupid. So much suffering and loss. But as long as that stupid happens, other countries need to deter them from trying anything more. Because as terrible as military stuff is, war is much much worse.
