With US military spending continuing to rise, mostly on claims of the “threat” posed by Russia, many would be surprised to learn that Russia’s military spending actually dropped 20% in the last year. As a Reuters article details, Russia’s military spending looks to be on a general decline going forward.
Worldwide military spending was slightly up over the last year, with the US amounting to more than a third (35%) of global military spending. Russia’s decline actually brings them down to the fourth highest spending military worldwide, passed by Saudi Arabia.
In March, Russia announced that over the next five years they plan to cut their overall military spending to less than 3% of their national GDP. That means substantial further cuts in the next few years, and will likely mean multiple additional nations will pass them in military spending.
Russia remains a substantial military power even with the cuts, of course. The general trend toward cuts shows that they aren’t envisioning large overseas entanglements, or the sort of World War 3 type of invasions that some NATO military figures have claimed. Russia is clearly moving toward a more defensive footing, and pocketing the savings.
Putin isn’t the anti-West zealot many on here want him to be. He is in large part an appeaser.
He is more a trimmer, a nickle and dime aggressor when opportunity offers without too much risk. He’ll do it, just not take any big risks.
He is therefore very different from the recklessness of the US and Israel.
When at risk, he gives, but that is not quite appeasement.
Yes Putin was a appeaser in Syria by promising Assad would get rid of his Chemical weapons . But when the gas attacks kept happening even after the fact Assad had no gas for attacks . Putin is great but he can not stop false flag attacks . Russia has done very well under Putin’s leadership The new Russian planes can fly circles around most everybudies elses planes . The only planes that we have that can even fly with Russia’s new planes is the F22 and maybe the F35 . Putin is so confident in his new ICBMs That Russia is cutting their military spending by 20 percent . Russia evidently is not very afraid of NATO or NAZI expansion
If only half is true of what Russia boast to have for defense or offense, it is high time to start spending more money on education, public and/or government-owned-and-government or public dispensed information.
For peace, justice, feeling of safety/security, public must own and distribute information and lore/knowledge. These two priceless pan-human [alas, not American] values must not ever be owned, bought, and sold by individuals nor ran be privateers.
Look, the nation Gang, the largest and the evilest ever assembled–
nevertheless this fact– still dares not to attack Russia militarily.
So more love for people and much less for mad generals and presidents.
But, but how can he be reconstituting the Soviet Empire with a budget cut?
It’s the new high tech state if the art weaponry that Putin announced not long ago which has a sharp edge over US weapinary that makes it possible to spend less on the traditional offensive weaponry.it shows that Russian policy is purely defensive, but if attacked it can strike devastatingly back anywhere in the world with its new supersonic nuclear driven missiles and underwater tirpedos undetectedly and the American military is well aware of it.
The US may be 1/3 of the world’s military spending, but it is more than 1/3 of the world’s wars, and kills more than 1/3 of those who die in wars today.
Does the US plan to take over the whole world? Insanity. With just a small fraction of the military budget we could have universal healthcare and education. Spend a little more and replace crumbling bridges and roads. Plenty of money left over to bomb everyone else.
How about we leave killing others out of the equation. How would you like it if it were your family?
I was being sarcastic. Lighten up huh?
Russia has always had the best defense in the league.