{"id":24919,"date":"2014-03-31T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T14:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24919"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:25:57","slug":"comparing-nato-and-russian-military-spending-to-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/comparing-nato-and-russian-military-spending-to-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing NATO and Russian military spending to 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdfai3ds.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/31\/mark-collins-nato-vs-ussrrussia-spending-on-the-military1988-2012-plus-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Collins<\/a> links to this <em>Washington Post<\/em> graphic showing a comparison of military spending in the top five NATO countries and Russia (counting Soviet spending 1988-1991). Note that the United States and Russia now each spend the same proportion of GDP on their respective military forces:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_24920\" style=\"width: 863px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/page\/world\/military-spending-1988-2012\/892\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24920\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NATO-and-Russian-military-spending-1988-2012.png\" alt=\"Click to see full-size graphic\" width=\"853\" height=\"677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NATO-and-Russian-military-spending-1988-2012.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NATO-and-Russian-military-spending-1988-2012-150x119.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NATO-and-Russian-military-spending-1988-2012-480x380.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see full-size graphic<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>For reference, Canada&#8217;s military budget doesn&#8217;t crack the top 10 in NATO: we spend about US$16.5 billion per year (not even in the top 15). Mark also points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/cdfai3ds.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/17\/mark-collins-aussie-defence-spending-about-50-higher-than-canadas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australia spends proportionally more than Canada<\/a> &#8230; about 50% more, in fact. But it should also be noted that while Canada and Australia have a lot in common, our defence needs are significantly different: Oz is in a much more dangerous part of the world than Canada, and they don&#8217;t share a lengthy border with the world&#8217;s biggest military spender. You could probably make a viable case that Australia isn&#8217;t spending <em>enough<\/em> given the rough neighbourhood they&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Collins links to this Washington Post graphic showing a comparison of military spending in the top five NATO countries and Russia (counting Soviet spending 1988-1991). Note that the United States and Russia now each spend the same proportion of GDP on their respective military forces: For reference, Canada&#8217;s military budget doesn&#8217;t crack the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,6,62,5,1119,13],"tags":[697,220],"class_list":["post-24919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-cancon","category-europe","category-military","category-russia","category-usa","tag-budget","tag-nato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24925,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions\/24925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}