Democrats Vote To Give Trump Obscene $717 Billion Mílítary Budget

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

numberwang said:

The Chinese military for example has about twice active personnel compared to the US (2.2M vs 1.3M ) which is obscured by exchange rate magic comparisons.

Flag	Country	Active military	Reserve military	Paramilitary	Total	Per 1000 capita (total)	Per 1000 capita (active)
	China[34]	2,183,000	510,000	660,000	3,353,000	2.4	1.6
	India[71]	1,395,100	2,142,800	1,403,700	4,941,600	3.9	1.1
	United States[166]	1,347,300	865,050	14,850	2,227,200	6.9	4.2
	North Korea[115][Note 9]	1,190,000	6,300,000	189,000	7,679,000	305.7	47.4
	Russia[131][Note 11]	1,013,000	2,500,000	710,000	4,223,000	29.7	7.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

The US would also outspend most following countries combined in social spending if you take a total Dollars exchange rate as a base of comparison.

China has more soldiers, so what? China has 4 times more population, is a bigger country and the one with the most neighboring countries (14, not counting any close countries across the sea). So it's only natural that the country has a larger military as it has more space to cover. India has a bigger army mostly because of it's huge population.

I didn't expect North Korean Army to be this big. Sitting between China, Russia and South Korea, I expected a very large one, but that's ludicrous in size

How comes these countries have bigger militaries if the US outspends everybody else by so much? It's a fake statistic equating Rubel/Yuan oranges to Dollar apples.