That graph is quite misleading: It needs adjustment for PPP.
It also completely fails to address the kind of war the various parties might fight. We are extremely “humanitarian” about it, and extraordinarily casualty averse, which, since we’ve dropped the ball on drones, costs a freaking s-—load.
“That graph is quite misleading: It needs adjustment for PPP.”
The purposes I’m using it for, the variation in US DoD spending, need not take Russian or Chinese spending into account at all.
You are criticizing me. The quoted criticism is 100% accurate, and irrelevant.