Originally Posted by
minigundiplomat
However, whilst this process follows its predictable route to failure, those nations spending >2% on defence are expected to subsidise the defence of the others, including the EU's wealthiest member, Germany, which has allowed its defence capability to descend into a shocking farce.
There's an interesting website (which I'm not able to post the link to) which ranks countries according to defense spending. Just google wiki list of countries by military expenditure.
This claims that the UK's military spend is 47.2 billion in USD terms and that this corresponds to 1.8% of UK GDP.
On the other hand Russia spends 66.3 billion in USD terms which, out of its smaller GDP is 4.3%.
A pat on the back then to Ivan. Perhaps Trump will invite Russia to join NATO