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    NATO Defense Spending vs Proximity To Russian Border [OC]
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    NATO Defense Spending vs Proximity To Russian Border [OC]

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    4. hilfigertout on

      Good chart. I wonder how useful the border-to-border “proximity to Russia” metric is. After all, this graph marks the USA as extremely close due to Alaska, but the vast territory of Alaska and Siberia are basically huge swathes of nothing with a few towns and bases. Most people don’t consider the militaries of Russia and the US all that close, at least not compared to the European side of Russia.

      Perhaps this would be better viewed as the distance between the capitals or command centers of both countries, i.e. from DC to Moscow.

    7. toolkitxx on

      I seriously wish people would stop thinking about these bullshit figures. Money has no actual value in terms of defence, since it cannot buy things like milk in a supermarket. It is only a secondary mean to the actual product. Since every military budget also includes services, maintenance , buildings etc those figures have no actual meaning at all.

    9. felidaekamiguru on

      I would like to see this same data cross correlated with general distance from the US. Because you could also just about call this chart “distance from the USA” if you flipped them all around. 

    11. chicagotim1 on

      There’s something I find deeply hypocritical about western Europe preaching all for one and Poland is the only one of them meaningfully ratcheting up their defense