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Reuters: Russia doubles defense spending plan for 2023 (kyivindependent.com)

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Russia has doubled its defense spending plan for 2023 to more than $100 billion, which makes up one-third of all public expenditures, Reuters reported on Aug. 4.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

googles

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/2020_Total_US_Government_Spending_Breakdown.png

This has the US at 10% of government spending.

Though if you measure in absolute dollar terms, the US will be larger due to a larger economy.

Russia has doubled its defense spending plan for 2023 to more than $100 billion

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/politics/senate-ndaa-vote/index.html

The Senate bill sets a topline national defense funding level of $886 billion