IRC that 60 billion is 4%. But those are 2022 numbers.
Obviously they're spending far more now.
Also, given they've had been preparing for the war in Ukraine for a while, I suspect they were lying about their true defense spending in 2022 also, but lying about it to avoid raising any alarms.
The US spends 3.7% but unlike the US Sweden doesn't maintain military bases across the globe or need the capability to fight China in Taiwan.
Relevant Orwell quote about Hitler:
It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.
Won't someone think of the human placentophagists?
Sometimes I wear headphones/earbuds without the music on, just to drown at the noise.
Get ones that isolate noise well.
I googled. Nearing 1% of GDP in 2018. 2.1% of GDP in 2024. Roughly $11.5 billion. Not nothing for a small country. Russia's at 60 billion, but has more than ten times as many people.
I'm not trans. Occasionally posts from blahaj pop up in my feed, which is why I saw this one. I know this is blahaj, you're probably all (justifiably) sick of what straight cis men think, so please take this comment with a huge pinch of salt.
Out of curiosity I read the gender dysphoria bible, it didn't resonate at all. As a young child, my grandparents once had me wear a dress as a joke, it felt wrong and I couldn't wait to take it off.
What I'm driving at is this: If what you and others read in the gender dysphoria bible resonates and if stuff like wearing a dress makes you feel 'right', please don't doubt yourself. I'm pretty open about my sexuality, yet it doesn't resonate. If it resonates with you, that means something.
These feelings are real. You deserve to be happy. Be kind to yourself and love yourself like you do your loved ones. I mean that literally, imagine if your best friend discovered they were trans. You'd want to be supportive, right? Be that for yourself.
Oh, he'll be gone before it gets too bad. So no need to worry about Rishi.
My money's on California. House near the Beckhams and Prince Harry.
I dunno man. I just replaced as much as possible with lavender, rosemary and heather. (Check which works for your climate).
That way the bees get something to eat, and your garden smells nice.
You say that like it's incompetence.
They're deliberately lining their pockets with exhorbitant executive pay-outs.
Honestly wouldn't mind.
If they're wasting half a billion on Trump's legal bills, that's half a billion that can't be spent bombing Ukrainians.