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I mean we did have War on Terrorism next so.. Edit: - Yes I know it wasn't an actual war. -Yes I know it was about oil. -Yes I know it was America using money to make terrorist fight other terrorist -Yes, I know you dont need that much money to fight. -Yes I know about the atrocities I never said any of those things weren't true or didn't happen. Jesus Christ, it's funny how a one sentence comment can be misinterpreted.
@@Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee even if germany could, they wouldn't. We live in a free europe, we are peaceful, we are one of the most stable democracies in this planet, I mean what a childish worldview do you have? You think people here are the same as when the nazis were in charge?
@@about29catsPoland fell to the Soviet Union. Britain and France started a world war with Germany over Poland only to hand the country over to Stalin at the end of the war.
The French had been building up their military since the 1920s, Germany only started serious rearmament in the mid 1930s. The Maginot Line would have held if the French had adequately defended the Ardennes, their army was much larger, more motorized, and they even had better tanks for the most part.
@Lile Stojkovic They were better armored and had more firepower along with having similar mobility. Tanks like the Char B1 and the Somua S-35 were far superior to the Panzer I and II which still made up the bulk of German armored forces at the time. The Panzer III and Panzer IV would end up being much better later on, but in 1940 they were still underquipped to go up against them. France's military equipment wasn't oudated lol, the French had more modern tanks than the Germans did in 1940. When Germany actually started the war in 1939 they only had enough equipment to equip 3/4ths of their army. France didn't believe that Germany's main attack would be through the ardennes, had they prepared for a major attack the German invasion would have at least stalled or at worst ended in complete disaster. The Germans left their flanks completely exposed and used made panzer divisions keep advancing without artillaery support in order to push through in the first place, had France prepared its armored divisions effectively they could have easily cut off the German spearhead or have stopped the attack dead in its tracks. Even German generals like Guderian said that the Battle of France shouldn't have been a German victory, the French Army was more than equipped enough to stop the German invasion.
@@hman8338 thats the problem the french high command was uesless and their tactics outdated, they actually spotted germen columns going through the ardeness but didnt believe it, they could of sent more troops there or bombed the germen columns Also defeatism was a huge problem and due to the very low morale most divisons would just sit in their posisitikns to afraid to so anything, i would have to find the exact source(its midnight rn for me) but a french incursion of 1000 into the ruhr was stopped by 2 machine gunners and a couple riflemen, they just had little to none will to fight
Obamanation: give everything to the communists in China. Hopefully him and Biden finally decide to give their families over to the communists too. Obama bin Biden
@@erickolb8581 Conservative madlibs, repeat Fox News talking points but mix up the order to the point where it sounds hilarious and makes no sense. Seriously dude, are you drunk or just really, really stupid? Probably both, right?
After soviet union collapsed global military spending was reduced quite significantly that you can see in this video as well but sadly after 2001 it exploded again!! Normally i don't believe conspiracy theories at all but a single incident changing people's mindset so severely and making US pro-military, pro-war again couldn't be explained with anything else...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 Thousands of Americans were killed on our soil. American blood was spilt on American soil by terrorists. That is a reason to go to war.
@@stalinsaysgulagtime2350 American blood was split on American soil by terrorists who got funded and armed against soviets between 1979 and 1989 by CIA under Operation Cylone!! Don't forget metioning the last part please...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 I'm aware of that, but our "friend" became our enemy. We need to eliminate all terrorists, and never fund them again to fight our enemy.
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Would be a nice addition to have off to the side a footnote of relevant conflicts at the time. It's always fascinating seeing the massive shifts during times of war.
What’s more interesting IMHO is how the budgets shifted during the 90’s during the immediate Post- Cold War and then the rise of China as the new superpower and the rearmament of Russia. Goes to show how the world order hasn’t really settled down (and is still settling as shown a few days ago)
@@fish5671 Versailles was nothing compared to Trianon and St. Germain. Germany was a big country and able to recover whereas Austria and Hungary only survived due to foreign loans
You guys got the same treatment as germany which was unfair but it's been over a 100 years germany went to another world War had their country destroyed occupied by 2 superpowers and is now prosperous so idk
So you don't know about Kurdistan , we became nothing after the collapse of Afsharyd Empire , we are weak enough , even Iran and Turkey claim the name of Empire for themselves . A word of advice for you , keep your distance from Turks , they have nothing to lose
@@chaimlakota13 The Nazis were hostile to the idea of social welfare in principle, upholding instead the Social Darwinist Natural Selection concept that the weak and feeble should perish. Also, The German government funded much of its military effort through plunder, especially plundering the wealth of Jewish citizens and the like, both at home and in the conquered territories
@@chaimlakota13 he wasn't an amazing leader he was a skilled speaker who used his abilities to bring germany and its neighbours to ruin. You can't really discount the horrible things he did from an assessment of his worth as a leader.
In 1943 Germany spent 47 Billion, now UK spent 48 Billion in 2020. Considering US inflation of 17 times from 1940 until now, Germany spent almost 800 Billion in 1945 compared with now, even more than US spending in 2020.
Yes I dont know why US wasting 700 billion nowdays to their poor leftist feminist Lgbtq army, when now major war conflict going on, so in world wars only its best to spend a lot money on military then.
@@jout738 because as global military hegemon they get to exploit the resources of the world as they like and make sure no one tries any other type of govt.
I am pretty sure all the amounts are measured in today's money. Otherwise most of the money in the world today would have been spent on military spending in 1940 if those numbers are before inflation is factored in.
@@jaideepgorayaa you just said something that supports the fact that germany lost while you were trying to say that it didn't lost. Germanys loss is that huge mark you mentioned. That huge mark was a divided germany, millions of dead german citizen and soldiers, huge economic problems and the loss of territory. And yet according to you it didn't lost?
What I find really interesting to think about is that during the 70's and 80's, while military spending by the Soviet Union and the U.S., in terms of dollars, was fairly on par, as a percentage of GDP, the Soviets spent about 25% on the military, while the U.S. was around 4%.
There is no contest when the US can have any amount of spending and therefore national debt (which is already over a year’s worth of gdp) they choose thanks to the petrodollar
@@ivario guess what happened? the USSR collapsed because they couldn't pay back the foreign loans - that was used to cover their money printing guess what the US doesn't do? paying back the foreign loans - that is being used to cover their money printing - see? kinda same with the exception that because of the petrodollar the US is not in a hurry paying back any kind of money but it will collapse eventually (when electric vehicles and sht like that is gonna be the mainstream and US's rule over the oil is gonna be useless)
@@kilik5713 Not really. China doesn't count a lot of stuff like research costs into the military spending as US do as far as I understand. The actual spending is much higher than the data shown in the video.
@@Jk-qx7gm That has zero to do with this video, you absolute butterbrain. This graph shows economic power. The US has the most flexible, dynamic economy on the planet and always has. It's why we became the largest economy on Earth a century after being formed and have remained so for 130 years. Go be an asschapped litttle yuro somewhere else.
the fact that in the middle of ww2 the peak spending was around 5 bil says a lot about how large the world economy has grown, most of europe was sitting at over 15 in the 1990s
the problem is not that you don't have budget for healthcare. but your healthcare is corrupted and had alot of lobbying to the point that it had unreasonable prices. just look at prices in Usa compared to every other country
It's interesting to see how the US stayed relatively stable in spending growth, from 1870 to 1896. This is really does showing for the first major wars in Europe that the US did have a mentality of it not being their war
And seeing how the US dominated military spending after that, almost the big brother "You mess with them, you mess with me" mentality Edit: you know what, you people suck and I'm putting it back to my original comment.
@@awanderer3047 well after ww2 the US military doctrine changed. basically, we build bases around the world, so if any threat to us comes up, we can cut it out before it grows
These are amazing. It would be cool to include the major conflicts and wars that were happening on a timeline of some sort. You can see major events like WWI and WWII and the Cold War but it's really interesting to see the expenditure build up well before those events. Great work as always and thank you!
Interesting that at the end of the video US is spending more on defense than the other countries combined, but military spending as a percentage of US GDP, it is a fraction of what the US was spending during the Cold War. That's just how massive the US economy is.
@@tejedestinos-petonboostead6733 What's the difference between reading a compilation of what someone found and then wrote about, and watching a compilation of what someone found and then made a video about? Both are secondary and tertiary sources. Just a different medium. And unfortunately for us, a primary source on military spending over 100 years ago will be impossible to find. We barely have news articles from that time period still around. Things just weren't documented as well, so the majority of the human race consumes what other people found and takes the knowledge as their own. Really that's how learning works if you think about it. Because if we all had to relearn how to do stuff with no help from our progenitors we'd never have passed the stone age. Just watching and reading things others have found and made into a more consumable format, for hundreds of millions of years. Only a rare few each century making a new invention or find using primary sources.
You can tell what wars were happening when. 1898, US spending skyrocketed for the American-Spanish war. 1903, Russian and Japanese spending were high for the Russo-Japanese… then… world war 2.
In the early periods, you can actually majorly tell when the US was at war. The budget would go from “just enough” to “you have chosen death” really fast. After world war 2, though, I just sort of stayed at that elevated state. EDIT: Okay, guys, seriously. Break it up. I was just trying to make a lighthearted observation. Please stop arguing over the modern state of the United States.
this in part why Amdrail Yamato said "I can give you 6 months of Victory" i think he also referanced the USA as a Sleeping dragon it was its Economic power he feared more that its Millitary
The policy after world War 2 was to be able to fight off a minimum of 2 other nations at once. Since world War 2 we fought on 2 fronts reapectively... Europe and Asia (yes I know Africa but that falls under the European side pushing them back to europe) we have essentially maintained the ability to strategically hold a prolonged War with the next 2 strongest nations ever since... Russia and China and fight them both at once
@@bodhijitbiswas6282 5000 years of military doctrine has taught us that one does not defend there way to victory. And the us is in a bad place. We would be hard pressed to fight a war with just one other super power right now let alone 2. China and Russia. Russia being the most modernized to us atm with equivalent equipment. The Chinese have had only small engagements in recent history but capabilities are not far off.
@@Joker_Kaneki half of russian war material doesnt even work properly. They just builded some new flagships to look cool, a lot of money went a loooong way down to generals or ministers privat bank accounts.
In all fairness, Russia is huge, and most of their fleet and army was in the west where a majority of the country lived. Those borders were far more important. They hadn't taken Japan serious until the war was practically over for them.
Military budget does not mean winning. The US has arguably lost most wars, and yet has nearly always had the or one of the largest budgets. And even in wars they were on the winning side of, it was as allies and they entered late.
The U.S. reminds me somewhat of how I play RTS games: build up a gargantuan economy first while focusing on defence, then go all-out with an endless, relentless offense and pour a lot into military research/tech. XD
Poland had a very large army and considerable airforce, they weren't a pushover like people think they were. They were just isolated from all their allies so they were helpless once war started.
@@turdferguson3803 just the US had and pretty small army, they didn't have literally any treats like I said. Polish army was nothing compared to the other European forces
As an italian, it's incredible to me how Italy remained in this top 10 for at least half the time. I'd have never imagined that we'd be this much dispensing when it comes to military
Yes that's amazing.... But thinking about how our troops where equipped during the first world war with cardboard boots and this kind of stuff makes me wonder... The money where "put" there but as always in our country most of it ended up in a few pockets I guess
@@CraigMCox I remembered being a thing like... 10 years ago or something, but as of right now it's mostly not required. It technically still IS required to acquire it after purchase, but not to hold it
@@konvoker Un po come si sta rivelando essere l'invasione russa in ucraina. Tutto fumo, poco arrosto a causa di fondi monetari nascosti/rubati dagli alti ranghi
Just some fun years to watch. 1898- Spanish American War 1904- Russo Japanese war. 1905- HMS dreadnought launches, sparking the naval race. 1912- Balkan War (You see the Ottoman empire surge). 1913/1914- WWI and its buildup. 1917- US Joins WWI. 1917-1923- Communist revolution in Russia & Polish-Soviet war. 1933- Hitler takes power. 1939- WWII 1942- US joins war (technically it was December 1941, but 1942 is when you really start to see the budget change). 1949- Russia tests first nuclear bomb. 1950- Korean war 1979-1989- Soviet Afghan war. 1989-1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union> 2001- 9/11 2003- Iraq Invasion. Vietnam's ramp up was so slow that I excluded it. It wasn't actually that interesting to watch.
Poland being in top 3 for any amount of time is impressive Edit: I hate these people to but wow I have never got 50 likes before and I get 1.9k!? Thanks so much
It would be more interesting for me to see it against minimum wages. Because in Russia the minimum pay might be lower comparing to GDP than say in the UK. It is one thing to spend a lot on military when your people are wealthy, another thing when they are kept poor no matter how much money the country has.
@@lorainisrael Then it is necessary to compare all laws and social programs. In general, it seems to me that most of the data from the video, as well as GDP, have a very large error
China rising isnt really surprising seeing how she has 1.2 billion people not to mention the US that always threaten war with china which is very ironic. The US saying its because of human rights violation while the US literally has dozens and dozens of war crimes in the arabian peninsula as well as in central and south america
@@tgburn6984When are creating artificial famine and total destruction of Soviet industry and economy became "people happiness"? My relatives were riding over 200 km to my parents every week just to take some food, because there wasn't any in the cities. Gorbachev and his "perestroika" killed thousands and ruined lives of billions in Russia and all ex-Soviet republics. Literally worst thing that happened with russians, even Hitler's invasion was less devastating...
I just love how throughout the late 90s and early 00s Japan, a country whose constitution technically prohibits it from having a military, had the second highest spending
They are prohibited from spending more than 1% of their money on defense. They spend the full amount allowed each year. What the chart shows is the massive economic engine Japan had built!
It would be helpful to have some indication as to what conflict or event is going on as well, as that would greatly explain the rise and fall in spending level for each country.
@@akshat8252 if you are saying that we should wage a war against china We can't Not beacuse we can't win Beacuse of No first attack policy We have a 100 billion dollar trade with China wich would be sanctioned if we wage wars Non participation of allies because we waged war Various geo politics involved with war China can (will) wage war against us but we are far more prepared then we were during indo-sino war Borders have fortified Equipments upgraded Military entrenched Also I would like to say IAF is much more advanced than Chinese air force along our borders
@@eternaldragon7392 we have defence because of that it might be challenging for them to defeat us if they attacked us. We have seen what happened to Tibet. We need best army
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities." President Dwight Eisenhower (1953)
@Gy Bx Eisenhower may have been a rare one, but he wasn't anti war in office. Most of his involvements were followed the anti-communist rhetoric of the day, which saw little opposition domestically.
@@muse2182 with your bar set that high, who have you voted for in recent presidential elections? There hasn't been a presidential candidate with character in 50 years. They've all been sworn in on empty words.
Top 5 countries according to their military expenditure in 2020 1. USA - $731 Billion 2. China - $261 Billion 3. India - $71 Billion 4. Russia -$65 Billion 5. Saudi Arabia- $ 61 Billion
Top 10 countries according to military spending as a percentage of GDP: 1. Oman 10.9% 2. Saudi Arabia 8.4% 3. Algeria 6.7% 4. Kuwait 6.5% 5. Israel 5.6% 6. Azerbaijan 5.4% 7. Jordan 5% 8. Armenia 4.9% 9. Morocco 4.3% 10. Russia 4.3% Bonus: 16. US 3.7%
@@eliwhite5548 yeah I feel like people overestimate how much money the US is spending on its military. It's not spending very much compared to its GDP.
@@KenH60109 there were many confilicts in the 90s, nato and the united states were directly involved in. Then you have 9/11 in 2001, which while not a "normal" conflict looks like on this chart to have scared the americans as if it was another major conflict. this spwans into afganastan and iraq, with 20 years of occupation and "rebuilding". Plus, this chart dosen't show GDP. The us gdp has mostly kept pace with the militery budget.
@@KenH60109 There was no direct conflict with USSR whatsoever, it's that time when USA started invading other countries, more than 70 conflicts for U.S. since the end of WW2, so I'm not sure what are you on.
Actually no, and in 1934 our PM will contact the english PM stating that "with the current rise lf the german military, I (French PM) believe that the only option given to us will be war. And we would be wise to do it now, when they have nothing, than to do it when they have regarhered their strengths". The english answer will be clear "Nothing will happen with germany as they have signed diplomatic agreements"... yeah, that worked out...
@@fkjl4717 yeah, really not sure you can say that when your PM was Chamberlain... After coming back from the munich treaty Chamberlain clamored to all who could hear "I saved the peace in Europe!" And daladier (french PM) will say when seeing his compatriots congratulate him "fools I bring you war and you dont realize it". The french PM will change before WW2.
@@yolomax Polish had cavalry units against tanks ffs, France was in a political turmoil since the late 1920's with communist and facists trying to take power, add to that massive strikes in military factories because the people didn't wanted another war add the stupid political journals influencing the common folks, 75 yo + generals at the head of your army with ww1 tactics and you get recipe for the 1940 disaster.
Biggest problem with this is that it looks like military spending has only increased drastically over the last 150 years but if you account for inflation and percentage of GDP it's actually the lowest in history outside of some outliers.
@@gamma_dablam lol no it absolutely is not adjusted for inflation. You really think you can build an entire army for a few million bucks in TODAY's dollars?
Love how many "HEY GUYS, THIS LOOK LIKE FUN!" moments the US have, where they go from nothing to climb to the top, before falling down, and doing it all over again.
@@bagman1103 Even in modern times, if we switch to a full war economy backed by Google, Tesla, Amazon ect.....we won't be going down easily, especially when the contracts start going out to some of those companies for new military technology. That's part of the reason why a conventional war with China (key word being conventional) would never take place in either countries mainland. The pure logistical nightmare alone of trying to sail across an ocean to occupy a country of that size and scale is ludicrous.
It's amazing how a simple graph can pretty much tell you world history the more you read a out the time periods in this graph the better picture you get when you see those numbers
Really helps to show how much the US’s bloated military is a holdover from the Cold War. You can see how once the larger conflicts end other nations would decrease spending to reflect the easing of tensions but US is still spending as if the Soviet Union never went away
It also shows that until 2021...the United States has been at constant warfare since the fall of the USSR. Think Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War...that's been basically continuous since 1991.
@@drh3b The news is the same for everyone. His point was that after the Cold War, the need for military spending was less. The Warsaw Pact was no longer an entity in fact most of those countries ended up in NATO. The Soviet Union was no more with several of the countries making that up joining NATO and Russia's military spending was severely reduced. There have been wars that included the US in them but many other countries were involved in the same wars. Military spending is for the most part a waste of money, the vast majority of it going on wages, admin, and maintaining arms, equipment, and facilities. It's a pity for the American people that they didn't get to see some benefits from the ending of the Cold War as the other countries did.
The film indicates that Poland in 1938 had military expenditures of $1,000,000,000. But that's probably a mistake. The entire Polish budget in 1938 was about $500,000,000. So it was 1,000,000,000, but PLN. In 1971, for example, it is correct. But you have to remember that the expenses are converted according to the official $/PLN exchange rate. $1 for 4 PLN, when on the black market it was about 100 PLN for one dollar.
@@PBMS123 I don't think so, because the 1971 value for Poland is marked correctly. That's what it was in dollars without taking inflation into account.
@@PBMS123 Polish military budget in 1938 was PLN 1,000,000,000. Which is about $191,000,000 in 1938. Adjusted for inflation, by 2021 it should be $3,500,000,000.
Makes me want to research Italy's military history now, because they were in the top 10 in spending nearly throughout this entire video and what do they have to show for it? Except for some minor victories against a few northern Africa countries just before WWII, I can't think of a single major win for them since before the Middle Ages. Great culture, and the Roman Empire was great, but wow, what a waste of money since 1870.
Well the campaigns of Victor Emmanuel II on his way to unify Italy, was the highlight of Italian military power. Defating local rival, he won against foreign great powers and even the pope. Most of the time most of the time, he was able to use the great powers squabbling amoung each other to get them to promise him control Italian land either for his neutrality or for war. Bit later on you also have Italy war with the Ottoman empire, just a few years before WW1, where they conquered Libya away from the turks. Or "conquered", Italy mainly controlled the coast of Libya and the big cities. It took until Mussolini before inland was subdued, with brutal and genocidal tactics. Back when Mussolini was seen as more as the incomentent sidekick. There is actually a very good movie about Libya resistance against Mussolini, called "lion of the desert". It surprisingly accurate, even thought it was funded by Gaddafi.
Assuming this is true, it shows that the most industrialized country can rapidly start spending (and revealing its military capability) way more when the time is needed.
Yes but only for a short time. Britain, Germany and Russia suffered financial issues and why it was lowered basically instantly when war was over. If anything it shows the US economical might even before WW2. The fact it can ramp up its military and not suffer financial collapse afterwards show how powerful the US economy actually is. Also the fact to kept that budget after the cold war is insane.
@@neurofiedyamato8763 yeah but the US never fought their wars in their own country, all those european countries were in ruins after the wars with almost all of their industry destroyed by bombs, so its pretty obvious why industry and military budget collapsed after wars and why the US can continue spending and growing
@@neurofiedyamato8763 After WW2, Germany didn't have any (own) army for several years, therefore also no military spendings. The West German army was created in 1955 - I was a bit surprised that, according to this presentation, it jumped into the Top10 immediately. Well, ok, it seems that German economy had already recovered quite well by then.
Apparently that's Germany's plan right now ... to increase the defence budget from about 50 bn$ to more than 70bn ... immediately. (thereby jumping from place 6 or 7 in this list to place 3 or 4)
@@tobyk.4911 the plan is from 51.3 bil$ to 160bil$ this year (because of an extra fund of 100bil€=109bil$), after that atleast 84 bil$ depending on how much atleast 2% of GDP will be, in 2021 GDP was 4.2 trillion$ Edit: changed "it" to "GDP"
I am as well. I would guess China & Russia definitely had a big uptick in spending these last three years. I'm also surprised not to see Israel somewhere in the Top 10, at least recently throughout this timeline. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ukraine somewhere on this list, and if so, that should count towards the United States/United Kingdom spending. We all know The United States, Poland, United Kingdom ect, are the ones propping up Ukraine. Not advocating for or against it, just stating the obvious. Very interesting.
That was absolutely facinating, the work that must have gone into creating this video is staggering. Watching how empires rise and fall in line with their military spending is a sad indictment of us as a species unfortunately, and I think if aliens ever do visit we'd best hope they don't have the same mindset or we are screwed.
the presence of several countries not in the union already sets such an environment for international relations. The guarantee of the absence of conflicts will be the formation of a certain superstate, the "union of the Earth"
Meh. I think humans underestimate humans. If we ever got into a war with aliens, sure, they'd have faster-than-light space travel and technology, but if we as a species pooled every country, scientific mind, and dollar, into one single total-war human nation, dedicated and built for interspecies, intergalactic warfare, I think we'd have a pretty good shot at defending ourselves. Might not be able to launch any counter offenses for a few generations, but we'd certainly be able to hold our own and make the war too costly for the invaders I think. Remember, the cost to build a superweapon capable of destroying the moon in a single shot is only like, 1 trillion dollars with today's technology. If we as a collective species put everything we got into this hypothetical war, ala USA during WW2, I think we'd have a good chance of fking some aliens up, and stealing/reverse engineering bits and pieces of their technology
And as for aliens lol you'd think they as intelligent life would be predators like most intelligent life the chances are low like almost impossible but if we do get aliens I would expect them to be dangerous.
@@thefeudallord3149 and much of that was of their own doing. Stalin starving millions of people after killing off all of the top producers... And then using Ukrainians as a wall of flesh to slow down the advance of the axis forces. They also burned down their buildings, burned their fields, collapsed their mines, etc. All just to prevent the axis powers from getting any resources. Much of their death was because of their leadership. Still, millions did die. It's just that majority of those deaths were caused by themselves
Actual fact, in the 80s USA was spending 7% gdp while today is less than 3% but due to inflation its more dollars but less in reality. Smaller troop count, smaller footprint around the world, doing more with less.
@@death_parade That's not saying much, in 2000 China spent around $41.2 billion on their military, in 2020 it was $244 billion, that's a large increase. It's also pretty widely debated on how much they actually spend on their military, for instance, China's released military spending number doesn't account for a lot of military RND, military base operation costs, it also excludes the PAP (People's Armed Police) which conducts internal security, law enforcement, and maritime rights protection. Also Japans is equally not surprising their military is quite limited due to their constitution, I mean technically they're not meant to even have a military.
An interesting graph might also be (tho wars mess up the picture) - accumulated spending. There is a difference between continuously spending and just a short term acquisition spending.
@@miertul harassing everyone one the planet? If you mean having a massive influence on countries you do realize that the US would still have that influence even if it cut defense spending by a lot.
Their military is only allowed 1% of their GDP which show how insanely good their economy is because their 1% matches with or even surpass way higher ratios of other developed countries
@@itsperimo well it wasn't a superpower in the same way the USA is. There were other very strong powers during pax Britannica like France, Russia, usa, and Germany
@@Paul-ft9dn at the start of the pax britanica it was exactly like the USA lol kinda ignorant statement in terms of technology of capabilty obviously not becuase the tech of the time but infact it can be argued no power could hold a candle to britain unlike how the ussr was a competitor the navy was almost 2 times as big as the next 2 naval powers combained if i remember my stats right (and we kept that policy throughout the pax and then more) but britain was the exactly same sole power like the USA was it wasnt until late 1860s it got more balanced but it still was way in favor of britain. but its like the pax americania the first 30/40 years are pretty smooth sailing of 'we're number 1' and then other countries catch up
Isn’t it interesting how pre WW2 most countries military spending would fall in times of peace, but after, the growth of military spending is unstoppable barring societal collapses? Orwell was incredibly prescient when he said “the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous” - people go without food, shelter, healthcare, but we’ve always got more money for the next bomb.
@@LBlazer169 Yes I'll trust a person with a JFK pfp to know types of socialism. There are Libertarians and there are Socialists yes, but socialism alone is a vague umbrella term - there are specific types of socialism and one of them is called libertarian socialism, should look it up. It more or less was formed as a counter label against the more "authoritarian" types of socialism that is notoriously popularized by the USSR and its satellite states.
@@LBlazer169 Anyways, I did find the correct quote which clarifies what socialist he is: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written - against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it.” - George Orwell
I prefer US at the top than China or Russia this coming from someone who grew up thinking we should reduce defense spending if it wasn’t for us they would be having a field day with other countries
@@joakos1122 Except all that military spending has not stopped Russia from killing and displacing hundreds of thousands in Syria, and is instead used to help genocide Palestinians
If you know the WW1 history, you will know that the Australian already sent many army people to the Europa war field. They like to be involved as part of Europa although they are in the other end of the Earth.
I'm surprised the Aussies didn't have a higher spending level in the Korean War, from what I've read their commitment to that conflict was MASSIVE compared to everyone but the US, Britain and Canada (and probably the Communists). No draft system was in place, so they were sending a ton of their regular army and navy to Korea (along with a sizable amount of the RAAF). A truly impressive contribution to the UN coalition (and thankfully South Korea was saved).
Watch the US vs Japan navy comparison and see how fascinating the numbers climb once the US entered the war. They were popping out ships like a vending machine.
100% agree. But don't forget that almost every technology we know as such was originally developed by humans trying to kill other humans: cars, planes, computers, microwave ovens...you name it. It's just sad to see how hard is it for humans to become enlightened, and how easy to fall in darkness.
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Great video!
USSR: Okay, I'm going away, you can cut military spending.
USA: _no_
After the USSR passed away, the USA is like a man who already drew his sword out but doesn't know where his enemy is.
I mean we did have War on Terrorism next so..
Edit:
- Yes I know it wasn't an actual war.
-Yes I know it was about oil.
-Yes I know it was America using money to make terrorist fight other terrorist
-Yes, I know you dont need that much money to fight.
-Yes I know about the atrocities
I never said any of those things weren't true or didn't happen.
Jesus Christ, it's funny how a one sentence comment can be misinterpreted.
China : LEZZ GOOOO
Well as percentage of gdp it has been cutting back spending for like 30 years.
@@candicoated2001 Yea US trained a bunch of terrorists and fought them. That's because they don't have an enemy so they gotta make one
*Everyone gangsta until Germany suddenly increase thier military spending*
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...oh no-
@@Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee what does it have to do with Germany's millitary spending?
@@Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee even if germany could, they wouldn't. We live in a free europe, we are peaceful, we are one of the most stable democracies in this planet, I mean what a childish worldview do you have?
You think people here are the same as when the nazis were in charge?
@@Tosse901 do you actually not understand it was a joke?
You know there is a world war when germany is on top
More like when America goes..GAS GAS GAS
And the war end when USA go brrrrrrr
1923?
@@harshadbrown2312 and ussr go down. And again GASS GASSS GAASSSSSSSSS
1887
Poland immediately after WW2: Nope, not gonna let that happen again!
You know nothing about history.
@@Saltywengiell Explain yourself, professor.
How did you come to that conclusion after one simple joke?
Poland was part of communist block
@@natusMCMIIit is rage bait most likely
@@about29catsPoland fell to the Soviet Union. Britain and France started a world war with Germany over Poland only to hand the country over to Stalin at the end of the war.
I like how Germany always appears with different "clothes" from time to time
German Empire, Nazi Germany, East/West Germany, Germany
@@jordanplays-transitandgame1690 and Weimarer Republic
DEUTSCHLAND Das sind wir lol 🇩🇪
European Union
China as well
Nazi Germany: has 9 times the budget of France
France: the Maginot Line will hold....
Germany: *passing by Belgium*
The French had been building up their military since the 1920s, Germany only started serious rearmament in the mid 1930s.
The Maginot Line would have held if the French had adequately defended the Ardennes, their army was much larger, more motorized, and they even had better tanks for the most part.
@Lile Stojkovic They were better armored and had more firepower along with having similar mobility. Tanks like the Char B1 and the Somua S-35 were far superior to the Panzer I and II which still made up the bulk of German armored forces at the time. The Panzer III and Panzer IV would end up being much better later on, but in 1940 they were still underquipped to go up against them.
France's military equipment wasn't oudated lol, the French had more modern tanks than the Germans did in 1940. When Germany actually started the war in 1939 they only had enough equipment to equip 3/4ths of their army.
France didn't believe that Germany's main attack would be through the ardennes, had they prepared for a major attack the German invasion would have at least stalled or at worst ended in complete disaster. The Germans left their flanks completely exposed and used made panzer divisions keep advancing without artillaery support in order to push through in the first place, had France prepared its armored divisions effectively they could have easily cut off the German spearhead or have stopped the attack dead in its tracks.
Even German generals like Guderian said that the Battle of France shouldn't have been a German victory, the French Army was more than equipped enough to stop the German invasion.
@@turdferguson3803 this. They believed the Ardennes was naturally impenetrable
@@hman8338 thats the problem the french high command was uesless and their tactics outdated, they actually spotted germen columns going through the ardeness but didnt believe it, they could of sent more troops there or bombed the germen columns
Also defeatism was a huge problem and due to the very low morale most divisons would just sit in their posisitikns to afraid to so anything, i would have to find the exact source(its midnight rn for me) but a french incursion of 1000 into the ruhr was stopped by 2 machine gunners and a couple riflemen, they just had little to none will to fight
USA at the beginning of a world war: *I’m too weak*
USA at the end of a world war: *UNLIMITED SPENDING*
Show me the money 😅
America would make Palpatine proud.
History of any shonen anime
Obamanation: give everything to the communists in China.
Hopefully him and Biden finally decide to give their families over to the communists too.
Obama bin Biden
@@erickolb8581 Conservative madlibs, repeat Fox News talking points but mix up the order to the point where it sounds hilarious and makes no sense. Seriously dude, are you drunk or just really, really stupid? Probably both, right?
As a Canadian, seeing Canada up there is a trip.
I mean I know our position in ww2, but its such a contrast to the 4 tanks we have now.
As an Aussie I was taken aback by the fact Australia at one point had managed to reach the top 10.
As a brit, I'm shocked my ancestors used to own both of yall
Surprised that it wasn't on the graph during WW1, but that might be because the UK was technically in charge of our foreign affairs at that time.
@@juliandacosta6841 *laughs in British*
Same with germany. Using one half of the Tank fleet as part storages and the other doesnt work
The US has a unique ability to inflate the defense budget to any number it feels like during wars
After soviet union collapsed global military spending was reduced quite significantly that you can see in this video as well but sadly after 2001 it exploded again!! Normally i don't believe conspiracy theories at all but a single incident changing people's mindset so severely and making US pro-military, pro-war again couldn't be explained with anything else...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 we're just bored with the other countries and wanna fight some aliens
@@ggoddkkiller1342 Thousands of Americans were killed on our soil. American blood was spilt on American soil by terrorists. That is a reason to go to war.
@@stalinsaysgulagtime2350 American blood was split on American soil by terrorists who got funded and armed against soviets between 1979 and 1989 by CIA under Operation Cylone!! Don't forget metioning the last part please...
@@ggoddkkiller1342 I'm aware of that, but our "friend" became our enemy. We need to eliminate all terrorists, and never fund them again to fight our enemy.
"Sir our estimation says we need 10 of these weapons"
USA: Hmm ye but give me 100
America has it's own measurement system so it can have it's own logic system as well ;)
Backups, soldiers beat the shit out of their weapons, I imagine this is twice as true for us
Meanwhile in USSR, better be 1000 for me.
Never enuff dakka
Pilot: Sir, may I have a new helmet? I accidentally poured juice into mine and it short circuited.
Senior officer: No problem, lemme get you a new one
The helmet manufacturer: Ah, another 400k coolly pocketed
Would be a nice addition to have off to the side a footnote of relevant conflicts at the time. It's always fascinating seeing the massive shifts during times of war.
What’s more interesting IMHO is how the budgets shifted during the 90’s during the immediate Post- Cold War and then the rise of China as the new superpower and the rearmament of Russia. Goes to show how the world order hasn’t really settled down (and is still settling as shown a few days ago)
Yesss watching the video i kept thinking like 1898 Spanish American war and things like that
@@vonsopas right
time stamp is enough for it i think.
Yeah what happened with Russia in 1870s?
As a Hungarian It's crazy to see how fast other countries recovered, we fallen apart in 1918 and still kinda falling.
Trianon was a bitch, that treaty really unfairly put Hungary to the knife, which was even worse considering how it suffered from WW1
@@AEIOU05Hungary really got the germany treatment
@@fish5671 Versailles was nothing compared to Trianon and St. Germain. Germany was a big country and able to recover whereas Austria and Hungary only survived due to foreign loans
You guys got the same treatment as germany which was unfair but it's been over a 100 years germany went to another world War had their country destroyed occupied by 2 superpowers and is now prosperous so idk
So you don't know about Kurdistan , we became nothing after the collapse of Afsharyd Empire , we are weak enough , even Iran and Turkey claim the name of Empire for themselves .
A word of advice for you , keep your distance from Turks , they have nothing to lose
The fact how fast Germany restored its military and economy from ww1 to ww2 is just incredible
@@chaimlakota13 true
@@chaimlakota13 That's true for many crazy leaders, crazy leaders are actualy good leaders untill they get too crazy.
@@chaimlakota13 The Nazis were hostile to the idea of social welfare in principle, upholding instead the Social Darwinist Natural Selection concept that the weak and feeble should perish.
Also, The German government funded much of its military effort through plunder, especially plundering the wealth of Jewish citizens and the like, both at home and in the conquered territories
Hitler spend so much money in those years. One of the main reasons he choose to attack others countries was to loot them
@@chaimlakota13 he wasn't an amazing leader he was a skilled speaker who used his abilities to bring germany and its neighbours to ruin. You can't really discount the horrible things he did from an assessment of his worth as a leader.
In 1943 Germany spent 47 Billion, now UK spent 48 Billion in 2020. Considering US inflation of 17 times from 1940 until now, Germany spent almost 800 Billion in 1945 compared with now, even more than US spending in 2020.
Power of dictatorship 😂😂😂
The yanks tend to fight the poor, where as the Nazis fought everyone.
Yes I dont know why US wasting 700 billion nowdays to their poor leftist feminist Lgbtq army, when now major war conflict going on, so in world wars only its best to spend a lot money on military then.
@@jout738 because as global military hegemon they get to exploit the resources of the world as they like and make sure no one tries any other type of govt.
I am pretty sure all the amounts are measured in today's money. Otherwise most of the money in the world today would have been spent on military spending in 1940 if those numbers are before inflation is factored in.
You can't say anything but Germany's recovery abilities are legendary
Germany after loosing 2 wars, inflation, being cut in half, loosing huge amounts of territory and people: Tis but A scratch
@@Thebeepboopman lol
I agree
@@Thebeepboopman I wouldn't say Germany lost ww2 yes at the end the result was failure but they left a huge mark
@@jaideepgorayaa you just said something that supports the fact that germany lost while you were trying to say that it didn't lost. Germanys loss is that huge mark you mentioned. That huge mark was a divided germany, millions of dead german citizen and soldiers, huge economic problems and the loss of territory. And yet according to you it didn't lost?
I had imagined these numbers to go bonkers during ww1 lol. Did not disappoint, especially after the Lusitania event 💀
Bro its not for inflation
@@TheStealthEcho no shit its military spending
Man do not swear this ain't x or reddit
@@TheStealthEchoMight aswell be~ Literally evvvery government printed wildly.
What I find really interesting to think about is that during the 70's and 80's, while military spending by the Soviet Union and the U.S., in terms of dollars, was fairly on par, as a percentage of GDP, the Soviets spent about 25% on the military, while the U.S. was around 4%.
There is no contest when the US can have any amount of spending and therefore national debt (which is already over a year’s worth of gdp) they choose thanks to the petrodollar
@@kerotomas1 Are you seriously trying to say that the Soviets couldn't print money with even more freedom in their state-controlled economy 😀
@@ivario guess what happened? the USSR collapsed because they couldn't pay back the foreign loans - that was used to cover their money printing
guess what the US doesn't do? paying back the foreign loans - that is being used to cover their money printing - see? kinda same with the exception that because of the petrodollar the US is not in a hurry paying back any kind of money but it will collapse eventually (when electric vehicles and sht like that is gonna be the mainstream and US's rule over the oil is gonna be useless)
@@kerotomas1 the ussr didn’t collapse because of that lol.
@@Ulaanbasaar The USSR collapsed due to many factors, this is just one of them.
The fact it is measured in US Dollars gives a hint to the ending
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All nations in 2000s': We only need a army for self-defence
USA: *laughs in cowboy*
Russia: Laughs while spraying the Ukrainian tears it was drinking everywhere.
I don't see China as self-defence country 😂
@@chrisblack6258 Still only spends a third of the US military budget a year
@@kilik5713 Not really. China doesn't count a lot of stuff like research costs into the military spending as US do as far as I understand. The actual spending is much higher than the data shown in the video.
@@chrisblack6258 Does it come close to the US though there is still almost 500 billion in between
The casual effortlessness of the US rocketing straight to the top any time it needs to is a sight to see.
@@Jk-qx7gm
That has zero to do with this video, you absolute butterbrain. This graph shows economic power.
The US has the most flexible, dynamic economy on the planet and always has. It's why we became the largest economy on Earth a century after being formed and have remained so for 130 years.
Go be an asschapped litttle yuro somewhere else.
yes,biggest terrorist that everyone is fear and hate
yeah & all they have to do is ignore healthcare, education & freedoms, easy!
The U.S. was an economic behemoth that didn't really care about its military until post WW2
Effortless ? America switch its whole industry toward military. Hard to think of a bigger effort
WW2: *exists*
Countries: You wanna see some real speed?
Europe*
1914 to 1991
@@juhannusruusu The US on this chart whenever we enter a war
*Allow us to introduce ourselves*
@@juhannusruusu In other news, Japan is now in Europe.
Italy in ww1 and ww2 , why I am so weak?
Spent nothing
you should do a timeline of gdp vs military spending to get a % of wealth each nation spends on military
Yes, that would certainly be more interesting and relevant.
Nice
The US would still be on top lol we are war hungry
@@hawk5394 Nope, Russia and North Korea and a few more spend more in terms of %.
@@prosterdbz9663 Yea, North Korea even has the biggest % of population recruited into the military.
I was gonna sarcastically remark "ah yes moving lines for 10 minutes, very interesting" but then I remembered I play hoi4 for hours at a time.
1 province at a time
I just played the video on 1.5 speed. Still perfectly understandable though the music sounds like the conductor's on cocaine.
_A fellow player who stares at maps for hours. A welcome surprise_
I don't know how but a glorified map staring game is so fun to play
@@TrulyAndasensame
the fact that in the middle of ww2 the peak spending was around 5 bil says a lot about how large the world economy has grown, most of europe was sitting at over 15 in the 1990s
I think you're forgetting about inflation.
Buddy did you not watch the video?? Both Germany and USA were at about 50 bil in 42
@yeeeeeeeeeee78
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@@goldeagle8051 even accounting for inflation, we're still spending hundreds of billions more than countries back then
@@goldeagle8051the video is all in USD inflation is not a factor
US Citizens: How about some healthcare?
US Gov: How about some missiles instead?
We have healthcare. You mistake free healthcare for good healthcare.. When they are not one on the same
the problem is not that you don't have budget for healthcare. but your healthcare is corrupted and had alot of lobbying to the point that it had unreasonable prices. just look at prices in Usa compared to every other country
@@Stevenlee-vl7rx No healthcare is free. It's just that some countries prioritise the health of their citizens over making instruments of war.
@@MegaTeeruk people really need to see this chart the military spending of Usa literally smaller than education or even healthcare.
@@sparky6899 you clearly cant read. Lets try one more time.
Free healthcare... Is not the same... As good healthcare.
It's interesting to see how the US stayed relatively stable in spending growth, from 1870 to 1896. This is really does showing for the first major wars in Europe that the US did have a mentality of it not being their war
And seeing how the US dominated military spending after that, almost the big brother "You mess with them, you mess with me" mentality Edit: you know what, you people suck and I'm putting it back to my original comment.
@@awanderer3047 rather, the mentality of a robber and a tyrant
@@anime_ymri_blin Putin sure brainwashed you good
@@awanderer3047 well after ww2 the US military doctrine changed. basically, we build bases around the world, so if any threat to us comes up, we can cut it out before it grows
All know Germany was sponsoring by USA :)
These are amazing. It would be cool to include the major conflicts and wars that were happening on a timeline of some sort. You can see major events like WWI and WWII and the Cold War but it's really interesting to see the expenditure build up well before those events. Great work as always and thank you!
Just know the years of most of these major conflicts and your good
You can also see 9/11 where the U.S spending massively shoots up during late 2001.
Interesting that at the end of the video US is spending more on defense than the other countries combined, but military spending as a percentage of US GDP, it is a fraction of what the US was spending during the Cold War. That's just how massive the US economy is.
Or you can go read something instead of watching EVERYTHING on yt
@@tejedestinos-petonboostead6733 What's the difference between reading a compilation of what someone found and then wrote about, and watching a compilation of what someone found and then made a video about? Both are secondary and tertiary sources. Just a different medium. And unfortunately for us, a primary source on military spending over 100 years ago will be impossible to find. We barely have news articles from that time period still around. Things just weren't documented as well, so the majority of the human race consumes what other people found and takes the knowledge as their own.
Really that's how learning works if you think about it. Because if we all had to relearn how to do stuff with no help from our progenitors we'd never have passed the stone age. Just watching and reading things others have found and made into a more consumable format, for hundreds of millions of years. Only a rare few each century making a new invention or find using primary sources.
You can tell what wars were happening when. 1898, US spending skyrocketed for the American-Spanish war. 1903, Russian and Japanese spending were high for the Russo-Japanese… then… world war 2.
plus it collapsed during the 1905 revolution
Ottoman: hello me rich
Also ottoman a minute later: bye
they would’ve been on or near the top for about 400 years prior to this timeline
Every empire falls...good luck to the US
In the early periods, you can actually majorly tell when the US was at war. The budget would go from “just enough” to “you have chosen death” really fast. After world war 2, though, I just sort of stayed at that elevated state.
EDIT: Okay, guys, seriously. Break it up. I was just trying to make a lighthearted observation. Please stop arguing over the modern state of the United States.
this in part why Amdrail Yamato said "I can give you 6 months of Victory" i think he also referanced the USA as a Sleeping dragon it was its Economic power he feared more that its Millitary
The policy after world War 2 was to be able to fight off a minimum of 2 other nations at once. Since world War 2 we fought on 2 fronts reapectively... Europe and Asia (yes I know Africa but that falls under the European side pushing them back to europe) we have essentially maintained the ability to strategically hold a prolonged War with the next 2 strongest nations ever since... Russia and China and fight them both at once
@@Joker_Kaneki at this point the US can take on the rest of the world combined in a conventional war if it was a defensive engagement.
@@bodhijitbiswas6282 5000 years of military doctrine has taught us that one does not defend there way to victory. And the us is in a bad place. We would be hard pressed to fight a war with just one other super power right now let alone 2. China and Russia. Russia being the most modernized to us atm with equivalent equipment. The Chinese have had only small engagements in recent history but capabilities are not far off.
@@Joker_Kaneki half of russian war material doesnt even work properly. They just builded some new flagships to look cool, a lot of money went a loooong way down to generals or ministers privat bank accounts.
*Russia spending three times as much as Japan in 1904-5 and still losing the war*
In all fairness, Russia is huge, and most of their fleet and army was in the west where a majority of the country lived. Those borders were far more important. They hadn't taken Japan serious until the war was practically over for them.
And then it's using 3x less than Germany in ww2 and winning. I guess winning the war is not only about the budget
Actually they won
Military budget does not mean winning. The US has arguably lost most wars, and yet has nearly always had the or one of the largest budgets. And even in wars they were on the winning side of, it was as allies and they entered late.
@@j2174 they deny that
Germany’s like a night club that gets hot, then closes suddenly, and opens again under a new name 😂
The U.S. reminds me somewhat of how I play RTS games: build up a gargantuan economy first while focusing on defence, then go all-out with an endless, relentless offense and pour a lot into military research/tech. XD
Rts?
Have you played polytopia? That kind of strategy is really good in that game
@@idsfxtm5759 Real-time strategy e.g. Age of Empires, Command & Conquer, Rise of Nations, World in Conflict, Company of Heroes, Total War, etc. :-)
@@justinengle7907 Nope! I think it's the first time I've heard of it. I'll check it out, thanks!
@@rudolfaerofare2683 my favorites favorite strategy game is Hoi4 and Eu4
1938, Poland and the USA have an equal military budget. Crazy times.
The US didn't have any treats.
Poland had a very large army and considerable airforce, they weren't a pushover like people think they were. They were just isolated from all their allies so they were helpless once war started.
@@turdferguson3803 just the US had and pretty small army, they didn't have literally any treats like I said. Polish army was nothing compared to the other European forces
They were doing OK before communism screwed them over.
@@shturm9391 literally nothing? The Polish army was over a million strong, and who is this “other European forces”?
As an italian, it's incredible to me how Italy remained in this top 10 for at least half the time. I'd have never imagined that we'd be this much dispensing when it comes to military
Poor Italy had to be forced into war by their leader
Yes that's amazing.... But thinking about how our troops where equipped during the first world war with cardboard boots and this kind of stuff makes me wonder... The money where "put" there but as always in our country most of it ended up in a few pockets I guess
Do you still have to keep receipts for buying coffee in Italy? I remember that rule when I was there. Was an anti-corruption measure
@@CraigMCox I remembered being a thing like... 10 years ago or something, but as of right now it's mostly not required. It technically still IS required to acquire it after purchase, but not to hold it
@@konvoker Un po come si sta rivelando essere l'invasione russa in ucraina. Tutto fumo, poco arrosto a causa di fondi monetari nascosti/rubati dagli alti ranghi
The uk in 1899 “hehe military goes pew pew”
Just some fun years to watch.
1898- Spanish American War
1904- Russo Japanese war.
1905- HMS dreadnought launches, sparking the naval race.
1912- Balkan War (You see the Ottoman empire surge).
1913/1914- WWI and its buildup.
1917- US Joins WWI.
1917-1923- Communist revolution in Russia & Polish-Soviet war.
1933- Hitler takes power.
1939- WWII
1942- US joins war (technically it was December 1941, but 1942 is when you really start to see the budget change).
1949- Russia tests first nuclear bomb.
1950- Korean war
1979-1989- Soviet Afghan war.
1989-1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union>
2001- 9/11
2003- Iraq Invasion.
Vietnam's ramp up was so slow that I excluded it. It wasn't actually that interesting to watch.
Thx Sir. Really interesting.
The first one isnt even a war
1871 Franco-Prussian War
All that money Soviet union spent on the afghan war just to lose
Its curious how usa starts spendig more money before 1898, like they had calculated that war to "liberate" cuba
Poland being in top 3 for any amount of time is impressive
Edit: I hate these people to but wow I have never got 50 likes before and I get 1.9k!? Thanks so much
Basically 1947-50
any amount of time, shure 🤪🤡 are you on drugs?
@@exocet8834 the fuk u talking about xd 1965 1973
@@exocet8834 its like most of the time top 10
в составе СССР))
I would be really interested in seeing defense spending as a percentage of GDP, in similar graph form.
It would be more interesting for me to see it against minimum wages. Because in Russia the minimum pay might be lower comparing to GDP than say in the UK. It is one thing to spend a lot on military when your people are wealthy, another thing when they are kept poor no matter how much money the country has.
@@lorainisrael Then it is necessary to compare all laws and social programs. In general, it seems to me that most of the data from the video, as well as GDP, have a very large error
@@lorainisrael there's absolutely no point. And it's not possible. As many countries, such as the US don't even have a nationwide minimum wage.
@@lorainisrael it's possible to compare similar defence equipment.
Definitely get more for the $ in poorer countries
What fascinates me is: China, a country with 5 times our population, has a military 1/4th as advanced as ours. O_O
Everyone's getting a bit nervouse when Germany's like 'I'll have a go at it'
China: slowly climbing*
USA: You heard something hon?
Russia: Must've been the wind.
China rising isnt really surprising seeing how she has 1.2 billion people not to mention the US that always threaten war with china which is very ironic. The US saying its because of human rights violation while the US literally has dozens and dozens of war crimes in the arabian peninsula as well as in central and south america
@@nemura7578 China always threatens war with Taiwan and theit power creep in the South 'China' sea, soooo we have to tell them to knock it off.
@@cortster12 What war? Which war ? What do you mean your " always" ? What do you know about Taiwan ?
@@cortster12 Maybe the Chinese couldn't solve the Taiwan issue 30 years ago, but it's different today
@@cortster12 Taiwan is China’s inherent territory, this is a civil war🤗
Very interesting, You can literally predict what countries are preparing for war, defending and offensive.
It's clearly china who is offensive now, recent reports shows they are spending 700 billions yearly.
escept usa thats chilling with half a trillion dollar military for no reason
@@azDanqsThe reason is simple. World Domination.
@@WW-fn7rt military bases?
没错，我们的军备正是按照世界大战的标准来的
That drop in the USSR's spending from 1988 to 1989 was intense
Considering what was happening then in the country - it is not surprising
Because of Gorbachev he focused on people's happiness than strengthening the military but it bite him in the back
@Wicker_ I would love to see gorbachev ruling ussr than what happened after dissolution of ussr
@@tgburn6984When are creating artificial famine and total destruction of Soviet industry and economy became "people happiness"?
My relatives were riding over 200 km to my parents every week just to take some food, because there wasn't any in the cities.
Gorbachev and his "perestroika" killed thousands and ruined lives of billions in Russia and all ex-Soviet republics.
Literally worst thing that happened with russians, even Hitler's invasion was less devastating...
Because you know the Soviet union was collapsing.
good video but if added what was happening like wars starting and ending would made it little more impactful
I just love how throughout the late 90s and early 00s Japan, a country whose constitution technically prohibits it from having a military, had the second highest spending
They're not prohibited from a having a military. They just can't have a standing army.
They are prohibited from spending more than 1% of their money on defense. They spend the full amount allowed each year. What the chart shows is the massive economic engine Japan had built!
@@birdofgrey6542 also not true. They can’t have an “offensive” military. But they’re actually amending their constitution to allow for that now
@@birdofgrey6542 Isn't a standing army the same thing as a military
They were prohibited from having a military that was geared towards offense, hence why its called the JSDF or Japanese Self Defense Force.
I love how you can see the world events happening just by looking at the dynamics of those spendings
Yup...once the 1930s came about I knew Nazi Germany was going to dramatic appearance and sure enough by 1937 it went to the top.
This is mind-boggling. Imagine if we, as a species, could direct these resources to something more fruitful.
Unfortunately there is a saying...peace doesn't pay.
Oddly enough, many technologies are a direct result of war, like the telegram. War is in our blood, always has been.
Peace sells... But who's buying?
It is, we have learned so much science do to war.
@@Bouhlvay the US military actually funded the creation of the internet
It would be helpful to have some indication as to what conflict or event is going on as well, as that would greatly explain the rise and fall in spending level for each country.
Having a basic knowledge of history would do this for you....
@@Grooove_eyou shouldn’t embarrass anyone like that
@@Mahmood0419 Why not? World is too soft these days. People need to be called out.
@@Grooove_e it was just a joke
@@Grooove_eYou’re misguided if you think the average person is gonna know more than the date of ww1 and ww2 in this period of time
World: Okay US you won the cold war it’s time to stop
US in the 2000s: *Goes Super Saiyan 3*
India after 2014 :
This seems interesting, imma going to join this
@Ashish Mishra so you want china to rule us
@@akshat8252 if you are saying that we should wage a war against china
We can't
Not beacuse we can't win
Beacuse of
No first attack policy
We have a 100 billion dollar trade with China wich would be sanctioned if we wage wars
Non participation of allies because we waged war
Various geo politics involved with war
China can (will) wage war against us but we are far more prepared then we were during indo-sino war
Borders have fortified
Equipments upgraded
Military entrenched
Also I would like to say IAF is much more advanced than Chinese air force along our borders
@@eternaldragon7392 we have defence because of that it might be challenging for them to defeat us if they attacked us. We have seen what happened to Tibet.
We need best army
@@akshat8252 Your name is same as me bro 😊
@@akshat8252 spend money on the military so hard that your people go into poverty
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities." President Dwight Eisenhower (1953)
@Gy Bx Eisenhower may have been a rare one, but he wasn't anti war in office. Most of his involvements were followed the anti-communist rhetoric of the day, which saw little opposition domestically.
Words are cheap. Quotes are cheaper
Boo hoo
@@muse2182 with your bar set that high, who have you voted for in recent presidential elections? There hasn't been a presidential candidate with character in 50 years. They've all been sworn in on empty words.
@@muse2182 But war is theft
Pearl Harbor: Occurs
US Military Budget: And I took that personally. 📈
Germany over night: Hold my 100 Billion
Top 5 countries according to their military expenditure in 2020
1. USA - $731 Billion
2. China - $261 Billion
3. India - $71 Billion
4. Russia -$65 Billion
5. Saudi Arabia- $ 61 Billion
Top 10 countries according to military spending as a percentage of GDP:
1. Oman 10.9%
2. Saudi Arabia 8.4%
3. Algeria 6.7%
4. Kuwait 6.5%
5. Israel 5.6%
6. Azerbaijan 5.4%
7. Jordan 5%
8. Armenia 4.9%
9. Morocco 4.3%
10. Russia 4.3%
Bonus:
16. US 3.7%
@@eliwhite5548 yeah I feel like people overestimate how much money the US is spending on its military. It's not spending very much compared to its GDP.
2022( Recent)
1. USA= 801 Billion
2. China=292 Billion
3.India=76 Billion
4.Russia= 64 Billion
5. United Kingdom = 59 Billion
Germany is now going to be 3rd.
@@wontonz6129 yes but the United States also fights conflicts all over the world. The US military also has huge research and development pushes.
It’s pretty cool to see the budget increase and know what conflicts have begun like with WWI, WWII, Cold War, etc
@@KenH60109 there were many confilicts in the 90s, nato and the united states were directly involved in. Then you have 9/11 in 2001, which while not a "normal" conflict looks like on this chart to have scared the americans as if it was another major conflict. this spwans into afganastan and iraq, with 20 years of occupation and "rebuilding". Plus, this chart dosen't show GDP. The us gdp has mostly kept pace with the militery budget.
@@KenH60109 There was no direct conflict with USSR whatsoever, it's that time when USA started invading other countries, more than 70 conflicts for U.S. since the end of WW2, so I'm not sure what are you on.
That's not cool at all it's just terrifying to know how much improvement these countries probably made now just by looking at the numbers
"Cool" Yeah people dying in war and being deprived of resources they really need is cool.
@Kenneth Animates not necessarily, alot of conflicts and wars that the history teachers don't tell you about happened.
USSR: *dies*
World: USA u stop spending so much now?
USA: _no_
France looking at Germany spending $12,000,000,000 and taking Austria in 1938: This is fine
Actually no, and in 1934 our PM will contact the english PM stating that "with the current rise lf the german military, I (French PM) believe that the only option given to us will be war. And we would be wise to do it now, when they have nothing, than to do it when they have regarhered their strengths".
The english answer will be clear "Nothing will happen with germany as they have signed diplomatic agreements"... yeah, that worked out...
Chuckles „im in danger“
@@louisxcxv1905 what about Munich deal? French PM become stupid pretty fast.
@@fkjl4717 yeah, really not sure you can say that when your PM was Chamberlain...
After coming back from the munich treaty Chamberlain clamored to all who could hear "I saved the peace in Europe!" And daladier (french PM) will say when seeing his compatriots congratulate him "fools I bring you war and you dont realize it".
The french PM will change before WW2.
@@louisxcxv1905 it matters what he did, not what he sad.
P.S. my PM was Stalin:)
France in the 20th Century : "We're a victim of military expansion and the ambition of our neighbors."
France in the 19th Century :
Yeah? How about A World With No Boundaries?
@@victuz 7 nukes weren't enough.
France spending 20 times less than Germany and losing Battle of France how strange they really didn't though Germany would attack AT ALL.
@@ommsterlitz1805 yknow its mostly cuz they intended to first help the poolish and prepare themselves first but then the polish lost a bit quick...
@@yolomax Polish had cavalry units against tanks ffs, France was in a political turmoil since the late 1920's with communist and facists trying to take power, add to that massive strikes in military factories because the people didn't wanted another war add the stupid political journals influencing the common folks, 75 yo + generals at the head of your army with ww1 tactics and you get recipe for the 1940 disaster.
1989 USA: Has activated infinite money cheat code
Everyone: Is war I spend much, is no war I no spend
America after WWII: I SPEND!!!!!!
Biggest problem with this is that it looks like military spending has only increased drastically over the last 150 years but if you account for inflation and percentage of GDP it's actually the lowest in history outside of some outliers.
Precisely. Needs to be adjusted for inflation or given as percentage of GDP
I believe the video was pre adjusted to inflation
It actually IS adjusted to inflation
@@gamma_dablam lol no it absolutely is not adjusted for inflation. You really think you can build an entire army for a few million bucks in TODAY's dollars?
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Nice video 👍 thanks for doing it with historical countries
Love how many "HEY GUYS, THIS LOOK LIKE FUN!" moments the US have, where they go from nothing to climb to the top, before falling down, and doing it all over again.
The industrial capabilities of the US when totally mobilized is fucking scary
@@bagman1103 Agreed.
Notice how the U.S. began to ramp up right before 9/11? It's almost like they knew it was going to happen... hmmm...
@@bagman1103 Even in modern times, if we switch to a full war economy backed by Google, Tesla, Amazon ect.....we won't be going down easily, especially when the contracts start going out to some of those companies for new military technology. That's part of the reason why a conventional war with China (key word being conventional) would never take place in either countries mainland. The pure logistical nightmare alone of trying to sail across an ocean to occupy a country of that size and scale is ludicrous.
@@bagman1103 “scary” until they learn they can’t pay for fuel so they drive back 😭 billions in debt and increasing every year💀💀
It's amazing how a simple graph can pretty much tell you world history the more you read a out the time periods in this graph the better picture you get when you see those numbers
Really helps to show how much the US’s bloated military is a holdover from the Cold War. You can see how once the larger conflicts end other nations would decrease spending to reflect the easing of tensions but US is still spending as if the Soviet Union never went away
It also shows that until 2021...the United States has been at constant warfare since the fall of the USSR. Think Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War...that's been basically continuous since 1991.
Have you not been paying attention to the news?
@@drh3b The news is the same for everyone. His point was that after the Cold War, the need for military spending was less. The Warsaw Pact was no longer an entity in fact most of those countries ended up in NATO. The Soviet Union was no more with several of the countries making that up joining NATO and Russia's military spending was severely reduced. There have been wars that included the US in them but many other countries were involved in the same wars. Military spending is for the most part a waste of money, the vast majority of it going on wages, admin, and maintaining arms, equipment, and facilities. It's a pity for the American people that they didn't get to see some benefits from the ending of the Cold War as the other countries did.
@@chrisparnham China? North Korea? Russia?
The US prints infinite money so it can do that.
The film indicates that Poland in 1938 had military expenditures of $1,000,000,000. But that's probably a mistake. The entire Polish budget in 1938 was about $500,000,000.
So it was 1,000,000,000, but PLN.
In 1971, for example, it is correct. But you have to remember that the expenses are converted according to the official $/PLN exchange rate. $1 for 4 PLN, when on the black market it was about 100 PLN for one dollar.
Eh might've been adjusted to today's dollar
It's been adjusted to today's current inflation.
The values appear to have been adjusted for inflation, so these are showing relative spending in today's dollars.
@@PBMS123 I don't think so, because the 1971 value for Poland is marked correctly. That's what it was in dollars without taking inflation into account.
@@PBMS123 Polish military budget in 1938 was PLN 1,000,000,000. Which is about $191,000,000 in 1938. Adjusted for inflation, by 2021 it should be $3,500,000,000.
I was waiting to see the US spike when the Spanish American War started and I wasn't disappointed.
There's already a increase spending of the US before 1898,that means they were preparing for starting a war, as happened later.
@@Peter-ox7wh I think that was the naval buildup of the USA when it built a modern navy to compete with the best anyone in Europe had.
REMEMBER THE MAINE!
TO HELL WITH SPAIN!
The spike when ww2 was massive
Axis: We are declaring war on you because you are weak.
US Industry: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Makes me want to research Italy's military history now, because they were in the top 10 in spending nearly throughout this entire video and what do they have to show for it? Except for some minor victories against a few northern Africa countries just before WWII, I can't think of a single major win for them since before the Middle Ages. Great culture, and the Roman Empire was great, but wow, what a waste of money since 1870.
Well the campaigns of Victor Emmanuel II on his way to unify Italy, was the highlight of Italian military power. Defating local rival, he won against foreign great powers and even the pope. Most of the time most of the time, he was able to use the great powers squabbling amoung each other to get them to promise him control Italian land either for his neutrality or for war.
Bit later on you also have Italy war with the Ottoman empire, just a few years before WW1, where they conquered Libya away from the turks. Or "conquered", Italy mainly controlled the coast of Libya and the big cities.
It took until Mussolini before inland was subdued, with brutal and genocidal tactics. Back when Mussolini was seen as more as the incomentent sidekick.
There is actually a very good movie about Libya resistance against Mussolini, called "lion of the desert". It surprisingly accurate, even thought it was funded by Gaddafi.
Egypt and Italy have good military
South Tyrol, the took and still have a whole region of Austria from WW1.
The Italian finance minister has similar duties to the Saudi justice minister
Used to be a joke about Italian WW2 rifles for sale, "never fired, dropped once"
Assuming this is true, it shows that the most industrialized country can rapidly start spending (and revealing its military capability) way more when the time is needed.
Yes but only for a short time. Britain, Germany and Russia suffered financial issues and why it was lowered basically instantly when war was over. If anything it shows the US economical might even before WW2. The fact it can ramp up its military and not suffer financial collapse afterwards show how powerful the US economy actually is. Also the fact to kept that budget after the cold war is insane.
@@neurofiedyamato8763 yeah but the US never fought their wars in their own country, all those european countries were in ruins after the wars with almost all of their industry destroyed by bombs, so its pretty obvious why industry and military budget collapsed after wars and why the US can continue spending and growing
@@neurofiedyamato8763 After WW2, Germany didn't have any (own) army for several years, therefore also no military spendings. The West German army was created in 1955 - I was a bit surprised that, according to this presentation, it jumped into the Top10 immediately. Well, ok, it seems that German economy had already recovered quite well by then.
Apparently that's Germany's plan right now ... to increase the defence budget from about 50 bn$ to more than 70bn ... immediately.
(thereby jumping from place 6 or 7 in this list to place 3 or 4)
@@tobyk.4911 the plan is from 51.3 bil$ to 160bil$ this year (because of an extra fund of 100bil€=109bil$), after that atleast 84 bil$ depending on how much atleast 2% of GDP will be, in 2021 GDP was 4.2 trillion$
Edit: changed "it" to "GDP"
"Top 10 Countries by Health Care spending."
US is the highest. Its results are among the worst in the OECD.
US is still the biggest spender there.... by far
35 percent the military is only 17
Per capita at least, and a kpi for efficiency. Otherwise, the US wins by sheer size.
@@maxbond2824 I wonder where it all goes....
I love how in the 1930's Germany is setting military spending records and in the 40's America is like Hold my beer
USA joins war in 1941, the budget immediately explodes
I’m interested in seeing an updated version of this all the way to 2023
I am as well. I would guess China & Russia definitely had a big uptick in spending these last three years. I'm also surprised not to see Israel somewhere in the Top 10, at least recently throughout this timeline.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Ukraine somewhere on this list, and if so, that should count towards the United States/United Kingdom spending. We all know The United States, Poland, United Kingdom ect, are the ones propping up Ukraine. Not advocating for or against it, just stating the obvious. Very interesting.
Well we know us spending was like almost 900 billion last year lol
Ukraine:⬆⬆⬆⬆
That was absolutely facinating, the work that must have gone into creating this video is staggering. Watching how empires rise and fall in line with their military spending is a sad indictment of us as a species unfortunately, and I think if aliens ever do visit we'd best hope they don't have the same mindset or we are screwed.
the presence of several countries not in the union already sets such an environment for international relations. The guarantee of the absence of conflicts will be the formation of a certain superstate, the "union of the Earth"
Meh. I think humans underestimate humans. If we ever got into a war with aliens, sure, they'd have faster-than-light space travel and technology, but if we as a species pooled every country, scientific mind, and dollar, into one single total-war human nation, dedicated and built for interspecies, intergalactic warfare, I think we'd have a pretty good shot at defending ourselves. Might not be able to launch any counter offenses for a few generations, but we'd certainly be able to hold our own and make the war too costly for the invaders I think. Remember, the cost to build a superweapon capable of destroying the moon in a single shot is only like, 1 trillion dollars with today's technology. If we as a collective species put everything we got into this hypothetical war, ala USA during WW2, I think we'd have a good chance of fking some aliens up, and stealing/reverse engineering bits and pieces of their technology
@@TheMrKMen Yeah, I saw that Hollywood film too, what was it called...oh yeah..'Independence Day'..good film.
@@TheMrKMen what are you talking about? conflicts would still arise almost instantly people hate each other we always have and always will
And as for aliens lol you'd think they as intelligent life would be predators like most intelligent life the chances are low like almost impossible but if we do get aliens I would expect them to be dangerous.
Soviet and US competition was amazing in cold war
It's remarkable because US wasn't the country with 27 million lives lost and the cities ruined.
@@anastasiagileva8711 And where did the SSR claim 28 million lives?
@@uemaekuxepouko9709 ww2
Edit: over 30 million soviet lives were lost during ww2
@@thefeudallord3149 and much of that was of their own doing. Stalin starving millions of people after killing off all of the top producers... And then using Ukrainians as a wall of flesh to slow down the advance of the axis forces. They also burned down their buildings, burned their fields, collapsed their mines, etc. All just to prevent the axis powers from getting any resources. Much of their death was because of their leadership. Still, millions did die. It's just that majority of those deaths were caused by themselves
@@obelisk-empyreanenforcer1457 за вами уже едут
The US during the ends of WWI, WWII and 1991 onwards:
Did you try to outslay ✨Selenurrrr✨????!?!
Fun fact: Most countries spend 20x more money on their millitary now
Fun fact: USA spends 250x more than they used to
Bruh you didn’t account for inflation or gdp ratio. This fact is useless
USA is going into space using hyperdrive while others are still driving cars 😆😆😆
And it's all about profits, not about a military that is 250x better.
Actual fact, in the 80s USA was spending 7% gdp while today is less than 3% but due to inflation its more dollars but less in reality. Smaller troop count, smaller footprint around the world, doing more with less.
Keep in for many NATO nations the US military is their military.
US in 1918 and 1941:
You need Freedom I see
Ничего подобного!
Развивала промышленность и инфраструктуру чтоб потом наращивать свой военный потенциал
Britain in 1940: we are already free, we’ve just won the Battle of Britain
"Freedom"
US to USSR: You also need freedom
USSR: No
"Who touched my boats"- USA before bearing up whoever touched their boats
To those confused by 1898, the Spanish-American War had begun.
Oh my gosh.
The downfall of Spanish Empire, the continuous fuckery on both Philippines and Cuba (via puppet government and 60 years Sanctions respectively)
Also the usa had already began building a massive fleet prior to that to keep Europeans powers from carving the America's.
usa seems like being ready to fight against aliens😅
on everything they detected something and are preparing for the death star
You should do one with GDP on the side or percentage of Military spending to GDP. That will speak a lot ;))
Saudi Arabia would top the Charts all the time.
@@Antiteshmis nah, north Korea
The fact this debate exists justifies the video.
USA would still be higher than China India and Japan. Heck even Pakistan would be higher than China India and Japan.
@@death_parade That's not saying much, in 2000 China spent around $41.2 billion on their military, in 2020 it was $244 billion, that's a large increase. It's also pretty widely debated on how much they actually spend on their military, for instance, China's released military spending number doesn't account for a lot of military RND, military base operation costs, it also excludes the PAP (People's Armed Police) which conducts internal security, law enforcement, and maritime rights protection. Also Japans is equally not surprising their military is quite limited due to their constitution, I mean technically they're not meant to even have a military.
I like your new video. Congratulations 👍
I’m glad you enjoy!
An interesting graph might also be (tho wars mess up the picture) - accumulated spending. There is a difference between continuously spending and just a short term acquisition spending.
I agree, it's a bitmisleading, because many things which looked like continuous increase, weren't the case, but anyway, good overview
Make this 2020-2024 and i will subscribe =) Thanks for effort BTW.
4:38 United States was like "hold my beer" 😂
As the mighty Mos Def once said, “sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years spent on national defense but folks still live in fear.”
Yes, people live in fear of the topdog, harrassing everyone on the planet. Thanks US, but would you calm down please.
Why is not this comment pinned to the top...
The goat himself
@@miertul harassing everyone one the planet? If you mean having a massive influence on countries you do realize that the US would still have that influence even if it cut defense spending by a lot.
@@rishiy6183 "if you mean massive influence on countries"
Haha middle east go boom boom
Japan: Doesn't has an actual military.
Japan's military spending: *9th.*
It has a defence force and a really generously budgeted police force.
also just a tiny fraction of the landmass and pop of other countries on the list lol
Their military is only allowed 1% of their GDP which show how insanely good their economy is because their 1% matches with or even surpass way higher ratios of other developed countries
Japan has a secret mility under water
Damn Britain really spent a lot of money fighting the 2nd Boer War
I wonder what the british empire's spending was. British india had a separate army larger than the british army under british control of course.
It's weird becuse alot of this time frame is during the pax britanica when the UK was the sole superpower
@@itsperimo well it wasn't a superpower in the same way the USA is. There were other very strong powers during pax Britannica like France, Russia, usa, and Germany
@@Paul-ft9dn at the start of the pax britanica it was exactly like the USA lol kinda ignorant statement in terms of technology of capabilty obviously not becuase the tech of the time but infact it can be argued no power could hold a candle to britain unlike how the ussr was a competitor the navy was almost 2 times as big as the next 2 naval powers combained if i remember my stats right (and we kept that policy throughout the pax and then more) but britain was the exactly same sole power like the USA was it wasnt until late 1860s it got more balanced but it still was way in favor of britain. but its like the pax americania the first 30/40 years are pretty smooth sailing of 'we're number 1' and then other countries catch up
@@itsperimo the USA navy is more powerful than the rest of the world combined and was during the cold War too
@@Paul-ft9dn never did i say it wasnt?
Isn’t it interesting how pre WW2 most countries military spending would fall in times of peace, but after, the growth of military spending is unstoppable barring societal collapses? Orwell was incredibly prescient when he said “the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous” - people go without food, shelter, healthcare, but we’ve always got more money for the next bomb.
Wasn't he a libertarian socialist, pretty cool outlook on war that I haven't heard of. War is definitely profitable.
Pre-WWII, attacking someone on the other side of the world took six months. In 2021, it takes six minutes.
@@Stellar_Politics a libertarian and a socialist are mutually exclusive dude
@@LBlazer169 Yes I'll trust a person with a JFK pfp to know types of socialism. There are Libertarians and there are Socialists yes, but socialism alone is a vague umbrella term - there are specific types of socialism and one of them is called libertarian socialism, should look it up. It more or less was formed as a counter label against the more "authoritarian" types of socialism that is notoriously popularized by the USSR and its satellite states.
@@LBlazer169 Anyways, I did find the correct quote which clarifies what socialist he is:
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written - against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it.” - George Orwell
Poland seeing Germany's military spending go up: ah shit here we go again
United states normally: eh, maybe 1-2 billion is enough.
United states when world wars: INFINITE SPENDING
And that folks is the Military Industrial Complex in action!
Based
I prefer US at the top than China or Russia this coming from someone who grew up thinking we should reduce defense spending if it wasn’t for us they would be having a field day with other countries
@@joakos1122 Except all that military spending has not stopped Russia from killing and displacing hundreds of thousands in Syria, and is instead used to help genocide Palestinians
I know we spent a lot, but I'm surprised Australia was 5th for a while during WW2.
Australia played a pretty major role in ww2 in the Pacific theatres and some european
If you know the WW1 history, you will know that the Australian already sent many army people to the Europa war field. They like to be involved as part of Europa although they are in the other end of the Earth.
I'm surprised the Aussies didn't have a higher spending level in the Korean War, from what I've read their commitment to that conflict was MASSIVE compared to everyone but the US, Britain and Canada (and probably the Communists). No draft system was in place, so they were sending a ton of their regular army and navy to Korea (along with a sizable amount of the RAAF). A truly impressive contribution to the UN coalition (and thankfully South Korea was saved).
Fascinating to see the change of spending from the 1800s to 1914
i love how accurate flags is used
This was interesting and informative. I wanted to watch the uptick in U.S. spending during the Second World War and the Cold War.
Watch the US vs Japan navy comparison and see how fascinating the numbers climb once the US entered the war. They were popping out ships like a vending machine.
@@DroneStrike1776 could you explain in similar terms. , I want to know more about it ..
Imagine if all that money had gone solely towards the sciences, technology, innovation, humanitarian needs.
I can't help but wonder the same 😔
But very much new technologies result from military needs and developments..🤷♂️
100% agree. But don't forget that almost every technology we know as such was originally developed by humans trying to kill other humans: cars, planes, computers, microwave ovens...you name it. It's just sad to see how hard is it for humans to become enlightened, and how easy to fall in darkness.
A lot of it did go towards technology research and development
It did, sort of. The military/industrial complex that is the US economy is a huge employer. And space is also militarised.
2000 USA: Alright this is a pretty good pace we’re going at
2001 USA: AND THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND
Hm I wonder what event happened around 2001 that gave the US an excuse to essentially triple their military spending without massive societal pushback
9/11 happend - ultimate excuse to skyrocket the military budget :(
@@Andi-ex2bk r/woooosh