Paul said “we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined.” According to the latest figures, that’s not quite right, but it’s pretty close. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute indicate that the U.S. last year spent more on the military than the next seven countries combined…
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In 2014 the United States, a country at peace with its neighbors that has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, accounted for more than a third of the world’s military spending. Congress could cut the Pentagon’s budget in half, and the U.S. would still be “the strongest military power in the world.”
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