For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank finds

The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history

For the first time, analysts at the thinktank recorded a rise in military outlay in all five geographical regions: Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania and the Americas.

  • @BertramDitoreEnglish
    7•28 days ago

    Two Thousand Billion is not a number I’m capable of conceptualizing.

      • @BertramDitoreEnglish
        1•28 days ago

        Yup, it is. I can’t really conceptualize a thousand billions or a trillion, though. These are not numbers that translate to reality in any practical way for me.

        • Saik0English
          1•28 days ago

          And looking at the report they are talking about European billions

          So you believe they’re talking about $2,400,000,000,000,000… When the US defense budget which is 37% of global spending according to the article is $850,000,000,000.

          Sorry, but I don’t think so. I think that nobody uses the “European” definition of billions, and that nobody has used it in a long time (since 1975 last I checked).

          Edit: I should clarify, nobody writing in English is using that definition.

          • Riddick3001OPEnglish
            3•28 days ago

            You are correct. I looked it up and re-read it. Tnx for clarifying. I’ll delete my irrelevant comment.

    • @afraid_of_zombiesEnglish
      8•27 days ago
      • 16.67 Apollo Programs
      • 3,289.47 Hover Dams
      • 4.01 Interstate Highway Systems
      • 381 years of running the US space shuttle program
      • 325,333 human-days running experiments on ISS
      • 821,548,821,550 school lunches for students in the UK
      • 78.92 Three Gourges Dams
      • 84,311,344.93 2023 full loaded Nissan Leafs

      Does that help?