This really puts things in perspective, imagine all of the things we could do with that extra money.

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Now look at it this way. The United States’ military budget is $636,292,979,000. Now, think about the “grave threats to our security” that neoconservatives are always rambling about–and realize that they spend a tiny percentage of this amount on their militaries:

Russia - $39,600,000,000
China - $70,308,600,000
North Korea - $5,500,000,000
Iran - $2,500,000,000
Venezuela - $4,000,000,000

In other words, we could cut military spending in half and we’d still be spending about three times as much as our “major threats” combined.

Pretty sure this is in part what Candidate Obama was talking about in 2008 when he said ”These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union” in reference to Iran, Cuba and Venezuela