minus-squareelgordino@fedia.iotoCanada@lemmy.ca•Canada faces ‘massive challenge’ as NATO eyes new 5% spending targetlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·11 days agoThe crazy thing is, it’s not 5% of the budget it’s 5% of GDP. Usually a government budget is somewhere around 20% of GDP. So spending 5% of GDP on NATO would mean about 25% of all government spending going on the military. linkfedilink
The crazy thing is, it’s not 5% of the budget it’s 5% of GDP. Usually a government budget is somewhere around 20% of GDP. So spending 5% of GDP on NATO would mean about 25% of all government spending going on the military.