How Much For The Pentagon?

Fred just posted that we spent $720 Billion dollars on the Pentagon's military expenditures last year, plus another $120 Billion dollars for the ongoing wars.

OK, how much is that compared to say, Russia or China?

It took a bit over 30 seconds to find out.

Look look at the below chart:


The United States? 46.5% of the total military spending worldwide.
Russia? 3.5%
China? 6.6%

Holy crap! And they're trying to make us fear either one of those nations military?

I'll bet some serious money that neither China nor Russia spend two billion dollars for a single airplane that isn't even supersonic, the totally defenseless B2 sub-sonic bomber.


Here you are, boys and girls, the two-billion dollar sub-sonic airplane. Two billion dollars a copy.

You can build a modern Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier($4.5B) for just a bit more than two of these unbelievably overpriced superpower relics.


One ship or two sub-sonic bombers. Must be a hard choice for those Pentagon deep-pocket big spenders to decide which...

Two billion dollars each. How stupid can we get? Particularily when you realize that the B2's can be used only at night, and that supercarriers (thanks to satellite tracking) are now just giant floating targets.

Go ahead, you round-eyed fools, keep spending.