>>4167089It's not really that much money to the USA. Like I said, during Vietnam we were spending proportionately twice as much on our military as we do now, twice as much was a big difference on our economy back then because of inflation. A few hundred billion $USD here and there every year is a reasonable minimum for our NATO commitment. Even if we spent our minimum military budget to stay within NATO treaty expectations, 2% of our GDP, that amounted to $372 billion dollars in 2016, just to keep it at 2% of our GDP. What we currently spend in 5% and this is a reasonable and manageable number, if we needed to, our economy could support 10-15% of our GDP on our military during a major war, this would be about $1.8-2.4 *trillion* dollars a year during a potential major war. Our national GDP stands at roughly 18 to 19 trillion USD a year, for a population of only 325 million people, compared with the EU which has 740 million people and produces the same GDP.
