Kind of crazy that europe's biggest contribution to the internet in the last decade was passing a law that forced every site to add a pop-up
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https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US-RU … seems fairly comparable, when the US spends from an incomparably higher absolute GDP basis I’d also bet the non-stop hostility from the richer powers led by the US has some relation to relatively high Russian spending
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(“Spikes” in Russian spending seems to stem mostly from energy prices & their high dependency on their sector. Their overall situation is entirely unenviable, but I just don’t see disproportionate/aggressive militarism; it’s often brought up but just seems weird to me.)
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