and does not want to change

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NATO guidelines require at least 2% funding of GDP into defence

USA is 5.28 %

Which is completely arbitrary

europe and canada 1.48

Germany has begun to change as has Europe in the face of russia

out of 919 billion dollars in 2018

605 was USA dollars

313 was europe and canada combined

You can see in the link you just posted that non-american spending has been rising

Because now they have something to spend it for, Russia.

There hasn’t been a need for most european nations to spend so much for the past three decades, unlike the US has as the world peace keeper.

2011 percentage of GDP spent on defense
1.52 in 2011 1.48 in 2018

Germany (Euros) 34,630 36,168 34,593 34,749 35,898 37,598 40,447 41,913
from 2011 to 2018

the monetary value has slightly increased

that is true

Albania (Leks) 19,877 19,820 19,022 18,788 16,671 16,250 17,199 19,492

Hungary (Forint) 295,967 297,650 286,341 281,402 316,338 362,798 402,793 484,031

Hungary has really increased theirs though

Comparing 2011 to 2018 overlooks that spending was still declining until Russia annexed crimea in 2014.

but over all the values have stayed the same

Since 2014 it’s gone up

adding 3-6 billion to the budget

does nothing

thats very little

Because it’s only been four years and the politics take time to change

a billion dollars to a nation is not very much

Depends on which country

Again it’s not that they cannot do it it’s because many in Europe still don’t see a need to spend so much

Also short scale numbers LUL

Europe is perfectly capable of militarization as seen in the cold war

Give it a decade of spending increases with russia acting as a threat and they can rival us spending

We are *capable* of

We aren‘t barbarians though

there will be another british empire

I wish

Fuck the British

The Brits are one of the biggest forces responsible for the world being such a shithole today

lmao

wrong