REPORT: Who were the top 15 spenders on defence in 2020?

The US remained as top spender in 2020 global defense despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Thursday.

The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) showed total military spending amounted to $1.83 trillion last year, a 3.9% increase from 2019.
"This came despite the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent contraction in global economic output," the IISS said.

China, India, the UK and Russia were among the top spenders, after the US.

"The increase in the US and Chinese defence budgets accounted for almost two-thirds of the total increase in global spending in 2020: the US defence budget increased by 6.3% in 2020 in real terms, while China’s growth slowed slightly to 5.2% in 2020 from 5.9% in 2019," the report said.

Also, NATO member's spending increased by almost 20% since 2014, just after Russia intervened in Ukraine.

Noting that NATO countries remain committed to increasing their defense budgets, the IISS said: "If these spending plans continue on their current trajectory, in 2021 Europe could be the region with the fastest growth in global defense spending."

Actually sickening

Defense wins championship

What are we defending

what are we winning?

Nothing

The US defense budget is greater than the combined budgets of the next 15 countries almost all of whom are US allies

NATO's military budget for 2021 is around $1.1 Trillion ($1.25T by 2024)

we aint have money for stimulus checks, healthcare, infrastructure investment, transitioning from oil to renewables, or any of that s*** tho

S*** is disgusting tbh

why u think other countries want us to start a civil war so bad

Great video:

Description: I attempted to map every US Military base, and it was not easy

I doubt

I never thought about the Indian military
Just thinking about it they don’t seem hardcore. Like you mention Russia and you imagining some wild s***

Military gang we eating good

DoD boys we in here.

Indian has the worlds largest democracy. People hate that so they gotta have a big military

If we cut it by 10% that would solve 90% of our problems

youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y

i mean can’t lie, at least it seems like we are pretty solid against external threats lol

even though our cyber security doesn’t seem to be up to par... maybe we should invest more in that

F*** NATO

Canada a big global spender + no ones touching Canada at all cuz of big bro U.S.

China with its empty threats would get f***ed if it tried s*** with Canada. Lmaooo bozos.

The most peace loving nation on the planet has the most trigger happy/armed to the teeth sibling.

kids starving to death in India meanwhile they maxing out they ammo like it’s GTA online - only to get pistol whipped by Pakistan on the world stage lmaooooo

Tbf we could take Pakistan if we ever had to run an invasion.