The United States of America has the largest military budget of all countries on Earth. It pays 37%--more than one third--of all the money on Earth which pays for war and defense. This is but one of several world records held by the US, another being the largest population of prison incarceration in the world. Two dead givaways for another question: What is the world's most stupid, evil and corrupt country?
Here it is on Wikipedia:
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You can tell that the US expends 5 times as much as China does on its military, and almost 10 times that of Russia. Needless to say, we Americans do not need it. China and Russia are doing just fine on a fraction of a defense budget as the US.
Would it surprise us Americans to know how much less China and Russia spend on their military and their prisons than they do on education, employment and medical care--what we would refer to as their infrastructure? America's infrastructure has the world's smallest budget in proportion to military and prison spending. This is happening at a time when Americans are in the most need of education, employment and medical care. Now more than ever before. But all the money is being flushed down the prisons to warehouse more wrongfully imprisoned Americans than ever before.
What leftover change we've got is not even enough to take care of our military veterans who survive our endless wars. Can anyone imagine a vast defense budget that excludes veteran care? Only in America.