Anti-Japan protests in China spread.

[Kasz216]

mai said:

Kasz216 said:

A) So... you do?  I don't get what your saying here.

B) As your post below shows, even as a percentage of budget.  What the US spends isn't "10 times higher" then the next guy.

It's fine.  Espiecally considering that NATO is really just "The USA protects most of your shit so you don't have to spend money on defense for old outdated political reasons and so the US always has baked in allies whenever it wants to attack someone."

A) Who the fuck have said anynthing about conquest or smth? Not me for sure. The statement was very straighforward and clear, military presence in the region (be it South China Sea or whereever else) is politically important. Therefore Chinese are rightfully concerned about military presence around their coastline.

B) In raw numbers it 10 times bigger, in relative numbers it doesn't. What else exactly should be discussed here? It's simple. But again do not make it look like absolute numbers don't matter, it's nothing like your army is 10x bigger than second largest army spender. It's roughly a 1 mln, which is ok for country of this size. Should other 9x be somehow explained? Yes. So I did, see my points above.

A) The original post.  Which you were agreeing with.

B) Absolute numbers don't matter.  Not when talking about proper budgeting.  Having more money means you have more threats... more to protect and more intersets to protect.