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2023: Defense spending at 85-year low at 3.64% of GDP

The US has not changed the global strategy to demilitarisation, which began in 2011. The United States does not perceive Russia as a threat and does not take the Ukrainian track seriously.

Defense spending in 2023 reached an 85-year low (from 1939-1940), balancing about 3.6% of GDP (to be exact, in 2022 - 3.61% and in 2023 - 3.64%) compared to 3.81% in pre-conflict 2021 and average spending at 4.12% between 2012-2021, when there was a change in defense strategy to curtail presence in the Middle East.

Source: Spydell Finance

The US lives in its digital meta-universe, consistently weakening its military capabilities and percussive fist.

Defense costs in% of GDP

Estimating some countries' defense costs as a share of their GDP in 2023

2022: $35 billion US military budget increase

At the end of March 2022, US President Biden approved annual state spending on defense and national security to $813.3 billion, which is $35 billion more than the previous figure. The increase in the military budget comes against the background of how the United States is trying to counter a number of international threats that, according to the American authorities, come from China and Russia.

It also comes amid a push by the US to modernise the military, including optimising the country's navy, supporting initiatives to modernise ground forces and investing in the development of long-range hypersonic strike assets to strengthen deterrence.

Biden increased US defense spending by $35 billion

I call for one of the largest investments in our national security in history, with the allocation of the funds necessary to ensure that our armed forces remain the most trained, best trained and best equipped armed forces in the world. In addition, I call for continued investment in order to decisively respond to Putin's aggression against Ukraine with US support to meet Ukraine's economic, humanitarian and security needs, Biden added.

The budget of $813.3 billion is more than 4% higher than defense spending of $782 billion, which was provided for in the $1.5 trillion government funding bill signed by Biden. The increase in military spending aims to prioritize countering China, the White House newsletter said, calling the "top Beijing challenge." In Pentagon early February 2022 Washington , he expressed alarm that he was China rapidly increasing some of his weapons, including hypersonic weapons. The budget also aims to Iran North Korea counter threats posed by violent extremist organizations and, which conducted the first intercontinental ballistic missile test since 2017 in mid-March 2022.

In addition to international threats, Biden's initiative includes a 4.6% pay increase for Pentagon military and civilian personnel, and involves supporting the modernization of the nuclear triad, investing in cybersecurity for the Defense Department and mitigating climate change.^[1]

2018: Military budget 3.2% of GDP

According to the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the military budget in% of GDP, 2018:

• 8.8% Saudi Arabia
• 4.3% Israel
• 3.9% Russia
• 3.2% USA
• 2.5% Turkey
• 2.4% India
• 2.3% France
• 1.9% Australia
• 1.9% China
• 1.8% UK
• 1.3% Canada
• 1.2% Germany

2011: Switching to soft power and colour revolutions

In 2011, the news and biotechnology lobby won in the United States, and other priorities appeared in the United States. Since then, tech companies have swollen more than 15 times the entire focus in techno idols that shape icons once every 5 years (Jobs, Cook, Musk, Altman, Huang) and techno events, and the geopolitical influence of the United States through force has changed the vector to the "soft power" of the 2011-2015 color revolutions and the capture of technology markets around the world.

2010: Military lobby seeks spending growth of up to 5.5% of GDP under "counter-terrorism" sauce

The military lobby intercepted the centers of foreign policy management and began the 10-year era of "combating terrorism" and "planting democratic values," which spun defense spending from 3.9% in 2001 to 5.5% in 2010 (an average of 4.7%).

Democratization was such a priority that the 2008-2009 crisis did not in any way reject the trajectory of expanding defense spending, and even more so - the concentration of defense intensified, despite the failure of spending on civilian items relative to GDP and the huge budget deficit at that time.

2000: USSR collapse lowers US defense spending to 3.8% of GDP

The collapse of the USSR and the loss of the main geostrategic rival allowed the United States to slow down military turnover from 6.7% of GDP in 1991 to 3.8% by 2000.

1985: Arms race with USSR, US defense spending - 7.2% of GDP

In the era of the arms race with the USSR in 1980-1989, US defense spending was in the range of 6.4-7.7%, and on average 7.2% of GDP.

1944: U.S. defense spending 43.3% of GDP

During World War II, US defense spending reached 43.3% of GDP in 1944.

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