World [email protected]English • 7 months ago

Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

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Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

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World [email protected]English • 7 months ago

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.

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7•7 months ago
Two Thousand Billion is not a number I’m capable of conceptualizing.
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  10•7 months ago
  Is that not just 2.4 trillion?
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        You are correct. I looked it up and re-read it. Tnx for clarifying. I’ll delete my irrelevant comment.
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    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.
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  8•7 months 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?

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