Top 15 Countries by Military Spending (1830-2019)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- This video will compare the top 15 countries by military spending over time, from 1830 to 2019. What topic should I do next? A like and subscribe would be greatly appreciated!
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Nice video. I subscribed. It is good to use real data, not the figures announced by the countries. However, at some points you seem to differ with this video.
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I like how this randomly got recommended to everyone and we more than doubled the views on this in a week
I think it would be super interesting to see military spending as a percentage of GDP!
"10k" yea right
It's over 500k views
Algorithm has CHOSEN YOU!!! Bow down….
Every country after fighting a few years: "aight let's stop fighting and let's reduce spending"
US: "no I don't think I will"
It’s because US never stopped fighting
US Defense contractor lobbying US Congress: “I am inevitable.”
@@user-ne1tv3hb2k Are you implying that that's a good thing?
@@adampustos1155 of course not. USA is the worlds biggest war monger after ww2
@@user-ne1tv3hb2k *laughs in southern africa*
no idea how the allied inspectors were like "yeah those 2 billion dollars are probably going to the tractors and farming equipment"
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they did notice but thought that it would suit them to have a strong nation between them and the USSR. And avoid provoking Germany into a war before France and Britain were adequately prepared to strike a decisive blow that would avoid a long drawn out war like the first world war. But hey, they ended up getting one that was two years longer and cost over double the lives that the first did. At least it's a good lesson for next time.
@@kingstannisbaratheon7974 I mean, at the beginning, nobody really though that Toothbrush moustache man would be able to manage the country. Plus, in 1939, France alone had a more than capable military force, and Nutzees were still more or less imperialist virgins, unlike Japan or the Soviets. I believe Allies were more worried that their pact with Walrus moustache man would last too long, as the Soviets were the ones giving them a lot of resources they lacked.
So, apart from underestimating them, a quick decisive military victory over France was enough to give Germany a good time to control western Europe, but in the end, the economy of the third Reich was still held together with whatever they had instead of duct tape at the time, and there was the whole Operation Barbarossa thing. By the time they failed to make the UK surrender, the war would only get worse and worse for them, and that was as early as 1941.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Hell, the appeasement policy was probably the only thing that kept the German duct taped economy together, seeing as they were relying on a Ponzi scheme (Mefo Bills) to keep the economy afloat. After the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland (and later the rest of Czechia), they were in a far better position to wage war (as well as the fact that the British and French betrayed the 4th largest arms exporter at the time, who’d spent a considerable amount of effort building defenses along their German border, only for it to be given away for free after the Munich conference)
Ever heared about "mefo bills"?
The germans pre ww2 "we never said any such thing about tractors we said tracked-terrors
Love how the US just fucking explodes whenever there’s a mildly large conflict that it’s involved in
“Mildly large”
@@louisbouvier6679 the Korean War was a huge conflict, but compared to WW2 it was pretty small. Mildly large
@@FirstNameLastName-qx8ii yeah I know I just thought mildly large sounded funny
WWI and WWII are the biggest conflicts humanity has ever been in.
Ah yes, because WORLD WAR ONE and WORLD WAR TWO were "mildly large" conflicts. They only resulted in a total combined death count of 86 million and completely changed the world.
When a country other than America has the most military spending
United States: *I feel a great disturbance in the force*
**spends $700b a year**
@@Poppa77 “now no one can pass me!”
USSR：Hello
America：I find your lack of faith disturbing
Japan：Well，sorry but...
America：Apology accepted
China：
America：
@@luxingyu981 *both stare angrily at each other*
That is the way
USA in the past: Lets activate *Sandbox Mode* with unlimited money for a while
USA Now: *Sandbox Mode* is still on?
Most spending is for veterans pensions
@@blackpillspear2592 nope.. Development and research of new technologies.
@@jul1anuhd basically discovering new ways to bomb rural villages in the middle east.
@@lifeisstrangeisbestgameeve6433 that wasn't america just some stupid old men that gave the order to the soldiers. And cmon. Every super power isn't perfect. Just compare the US to Russia or China. Who is arresting peaceful protesters that want a democracy, who run over them with tanks, who arrested navalny only bc he's a "enemy" to the leader. Who has concentration camps for Muslims? Who took over Hongkong, a free democracy etc.?
@@lifeisstrangeisbestgameeve6433 but I have to agree that america did a lot of things wrong and that it isn't perfect.
United States: I can actively raise and lower my military spending at will.
Other Countries: Why do you wanna raise it?
United States: So I can lower it again
the office nice
Lmao
Yeah
They can pull out the money they printed
For years whenever they want.
@@maverick300 well who is gonna collect the debt. Since the place that lends them the money was made by the government.
But it would be funny to see the White House get swatted on orders of the president to get the president to pay off the debt
Lol
Remember kids, when threatened America can raise its military budget upto whatever the heck it needs too.
not forever 😬 America is in crazy amounts of debt
Take away the "when threatened" and you'll have an accurate idea of america.
Remember kids, America can raise its military budget upto whatever the heck it needs too, but if you get cancer and dont have superrich parents, or become homeless your country won't care :)
@@aaronthebest5519 GER Global Economic Reset.
This sentence doesn't sound well, but not for the reasons you'd think
Enemy nation: Breathes.
America: Set the military budget to infinity, I repeat, set the military budget to infinity.
No cap lol
Bro don't forget how freaking much they have to pay to their soldiers and running costs to maintain those 11 aircraft carriers. It's that high for a reason I bet other countries can maintain the same amount of resources and personnel in lesser budget than that (no disregard to America tho)
@@vedantshrey9531 policing the entire planet is expensive.
Feeding the military industrial complex
@@Dearjonb Exactly, filling the pockets of the wealthy
Everyone after the Cold War is over “America buddy are you okay”
and then they wonder why they dont have free healthcare
@Vlad Tepes I belive firmly both Russia and China are lying about their spendings, but do they need to maintain so much bases ? No they don't, there are many places where they don't need to be and release it from unnecessary funding, like Kosovo,Iraq etc... They just can't stand someone else taking influence and that's why they are keeping those bases operating.
@Vlad Tepes UK also has a shiton of possessions outside of it
@@jovanjovanovic7721 we spend $4 trillion on healthcare and $720 billion on military, come again?
Free healthcare would quickly kill the country because of how much it costs to maintain, just get a job and get insured to cut the costs lol
Soviet Union : has more soldiers than their enemies have bullets
USA: Have more planes than they have pilots
Lol
So Murica made one big plane
*stares intently at AC130 gunship*
Except when that enemy is America lol
The russian part is a lie
I made the calculs, and the manpower required to sustain the US airforce is about 4.8 Millions. That's just for the airforce , there was still 27 Essex Carriers and 100 thousand ranks needing manpower on top of that.
Whenever the US goes to war the budget just hits infinity
That's why the US has been at war for almost it's entire existence :D
@@The_Thousandth_Tex it depends if you count conflicts with the Indians. If not, this is not true. Most of the 19th century was peaceful for the US.
@@bobing1752 war of 1812, Spanish american war, civil war (the most bloodiest in counts of death for any American war) these are just the major ones.
@@darianbarber3763 yes: those are the dates if the wars that you cited (which are all of the wars since independance until WW1)
1812-1815, 1846-1848, 1861-1865 and 1898 were years when a war was fought. If we count each of those years as one year of War (even though there might be some years with just 2 months of wars, I don't know the exact dates), that's 13 years of war. So from the end of the war of independance in 1783 to joining WW1 in 1917 (both excluded), 13 years have been years at war and the remaining 119 have not seen a war.
So I'm safe saying it was not "mostly at war" as the guy said. And actually, even if you count WW1, you have 15 years of war for 140 years of war until joining WW2 in 1940.
@@bobing1752 I hope you know that just one year of war can basically destroy decades of progress. If a country fights one war every 10 years then it's a horribly aggressive country. USA has been a very very war magnet country since it's independence. It's really shocking how the US government and their people think russia and china(or even north korea) are the war magnets when in reality it's the US which everyone should fear. Ideally a country should really only have one major war every century, not once every decade like the US have had in it's most "peaceful" century(19th century)
American civil war: "almost lost my cool there..."
Haha, me too bud!
Why?
@@cyc00000 cold war
Everybody gangsta until Germany reaches the top again.
N.Korea, Iran, whatever other punk countries try to talk trash about taking over the world, at least Germany put their money where their mouth is and tried to do it. Twice.
@@trevordelepine7708 i don't even think NK would last long invading the Philippines.
And we are like, a really weak country.
@@ArsonPeaPlayz I’m just joking because there are lots of dictators that run their mouth and never do anything. It’s all just posturing. (And honestly there aren’t very many Germans that are actually proud of the last time they tried to take over the world.).
@@trevordelepine7708 wait. Some Germans are actually like that?
@@ArsonPeaPlayz no we mostly just make fun about france
And than we say that we love them and that they are good allies.
And then we use their funny acent when we are drunk.
America when there wasn’t a war: We’re fine right here in the middle.
America when a war breaks out: SPEND IT ALLLLLL!!!!!
America after Cold War: Screw this! Full steam ahead. Buy everything that goes pew, bang, and boom!!!!
Well yeah, they need to..
I loved how America did nothing until the end of WW1 though then claims they won the war
@@blakesteinbacher4269 I mean America didn’t even want to be a part of the war. It’s not in Europe
Mintpoet cringe
@@blakesteinbacher4269 Germany wins ww1 if the US doesn't end it.. wtf are you talking about? Of course we didn't win it ourselves, but without us you would have lost
the scary part: the US only spends 3.4% of its GDP on its military
Because GDP’s itself is more than 20 trillion USD
Not scary
@@pinheadlarry8401 depends on which side of the border your on.
@@beausheffield1895 I'd say it's not scary for the entirety of Europe, Japan, South Korea, Israel, India and likewise countries.
It doesn't depend on which side of the border you are, it depends on which side of the ideology you are.
@@infinity8543 *gets scared in Mexican*
3:44
Germamy: Alright guys lets go
3:48
Germany: Wait hold up I forgot my phone
Something something hyperinflation Nov 1923. Hitler #failed coup d'etat beer hall. Use banknotes as wall paper etc.
4:13
Germany: Alright, thanks for waiting. Let’s Go.
*WWII starts*
*Germany massively increases military spending*
America: Pathetic
If America flexed it's muscles, most countries would be demolished instantly. The survivors would be too injures to continue.
@@billystokes3917 I don't think so
@@khalidibnalwalid2032 If planned correctly, the US has the raw military might to cripple most of the world's oil supply using nothing but conventional weapons in a matter of weeks if not days before any real effective counter force could be assembled and effectively starve every other major military opponent of oil while tapping into our own natural oil resources long enough to out last them.
As unlikely as it is with war being what it is and thus plans rarely going perfectly, we could still feasibly take on the entire world and win, for if no other reason than having a single unified command structure and fewer vulnerabilities that could cripple us entirely. After all, ships, tanks, and strike aircraft cant do shit if they dont have fuel.
Keep in mind: The USAF is the largest AND most technologically advanced air force on Earth. The second largest air force on Earth is the US Navy.
The USN is also the largest Navy on Earth and has the supply networks to be able to go where ever the Hell they want. No one else does. The Royal Navy comes closer than most, but still doesnt compare.
And we are an all volunteer fighting force. Imagine how ludicrously huge we could get if we started doing conscriptions or a draft in time of war.
Of course, this is all purely theoretical and odds are, even we would lose a war against literally everyone else... But the fact that we even have a chance in that fight says a lot.
@@imapopo2924 Ya i agree but if they tamper with the oil line almost all the major countries will be angry and the US is no match to the whole world even though they are the most technically advanced nation
@@imapopo2924 Taliban defeated the hole NATO
And we don't need to talk about the Vietcong
The world: How much money do you spend on your military, united states?
The United states: yes
So Original
Incase your wondering America is 2% russia is 3% and north Korea is 50% this is money spent on military
US spends 3% of gdp lmao on military. Russia only spends 2%. France also spends 2%. Saudi Arabia spends 8.4% which is the highest and still has a terrible army
@@lesscringeymapperdude us spends 2 and Russia spends 3 got that backwards and north Korea is 50
Beans
India before 2007 :
Chill bruh
After 2007:
*DEFENSE MODE INTENSIFIES*
Ikr lol and it will only gonna increase for the coming time
Well I'd increase my Military spendings too if some Communist Bully claims our land is theirs
@@deeperthantheabyss624 I mean it is Justified lol
@@nixenvines007 1: look up how many toilets were built recently.
2: jammu and kashmir were already partitioned by Brits and we don't want Jammu and Kashmir to become another Terrorist state .
3: why should we give northeast lol? Give me one reason?
4: I'm a South Indian myself and no one wants a separate country and there's no need to. Even if they want how do you determine who's south Indian?
Lmao why are you hell bent on dividing the country? Sorry to disappoint you but none of these except the toilet building are gonna happen.
5: stop pasting it everywhere it's annoying
Or maybe you are jealous that India is diverse and has variety than your whole life?
@@nixenvines007 Free Balochistan first
Love how you can see the exact moment when WWII goes from being not America's problem to America's problem when pearl harbor happens.
Why would it have been any different? Every country has its own interests, and militarily strong countries don't generally roll over like sheep when attacked, as weaker ones so often do. Perhaps you're not able to grasp such a concept, for whatever reason, but that's how geopolitical reality usually works. Here in Europe, for example, nobody really gave a damn about climate change until it started having negative effects here very recently. Now all of the sudden it's some kind of priority (at least it's spoken about more, although I doubt much will really be done in the near future) in places such as Germany, and will no doubt soon be a priority in other places, as things get worse. It's really not rocket science to understand how these things actually work.
@@erniebuchinski3614
So US needs to face more disasters before caring about climate change?
Even before Pearl Harbor, America was already spending tons of money on their military. FDR knew war was inevitable and wanted the US to be prepared for when the conflict finally arrived, which is why even when Pearl Harbor happened in December of 1941, America was already spending a shit load of money in 1941. Plus Lend-Lease became a thing in June 1941 where America manufactured a shit load of artillery for Britain, USSR, and China. (Mostly Britain)
Germany didn’t exist untill 1870/71 and only used the modern flag after ww1 so I don’t know what was going on in 1839
I think using the modern name of the countries is for simplicity sake, but I also wonder what number they used for military spending before the german unification. Did they add all german principalities into one? Did they only take prussia into account?
@@columbien10 probably just prussia
Prussia
@@isaiahparis might have been the German conffedaration
@@kaiserschmarrn260 might have been luxembourg
Poland in 1948 be like: Ye that sound like a reasonable amount of money to spend
I guess they had to rebuild their whole military. That would explain a huge spike in those couple years but I don't see the reason why Poland stayed on 4-5 for half of the cold war. Probably USSR wanted them to militarise like crazy.
Spain in 2000 be like: I just want to protect myself from terrorism
Somewhat surprising nonetheless considering Poland just suffered almost a trillion dollars in damages from the war.
@@sulphurous2656 Lol, the whole country wasn't worth even 1 billion dollars back then.
@@bayron45 Adjusted for inflation.
My mind is blown that New Zealand of all countries is in the Top 10 during WWII, let alone at all.
To be fair, they had half a millon soldiers, wich is very surprising for NZ
Same her for the Netherlands, we were on the list for a while
I'm surprised Australia ended up outspending Italy for most of the war. They were supposed to be one of the major powers.
@@coreymicallef365 It was only counting the occupied part of Italy, not the whole MD borders
@@JudgeCorser Italy entered the war in June1940 and none of Italy proper was occupied until July 1943 closely followed by the Italian Armistice in September 1943. According to this Australia overtook Italy in military spending sometime in 1940 and never lost that lead until after the war in 1948.
*Germany starts investing on military
Everybody: ah shit here we go again
This is how it will be bc germany can spend more money for our military in 2022😀 (We weren't allowed bc ww2 until 2022) But you guys better trust us we have learned from our history😂😂👍
Wait till 2022
2022: third times the charm
@@matthiashugner6085 Here we go
Welp.. this aged beautifully
Love how every single time there’s any way regarding America whatsoever the US military budget shoots to the top the goes all the way down again.
Because they were selling weapons. Take in count that they were using aprox 4% of their GDP
@@JudgeCorser Explain?
@@buddermonger2000 the US military budget is about 4% of the United States’ total economic output.
Except after WWII, they never came back down after that
America: Guys I found this free money hack!
Other countries: It’s a virus…
America: *laughs in money*
America figured out how to download ram
America lives on boroved time guys. Ypu cant spent what you dont have and that for several years...it will catch up with you....as it is doing. But do not worrie it will be you and others at the bottom and your children who will have to pay for this. And the banks and bankers and their friends in the WH are smiling.
@@IceBox666theone666 No, quit sippin bleach and smoking dmt while watching conspiracies. Without the us dollar or strong us economy the rest of the world would fail. Similarly in China.
El que no arriesga no gana
@@pusilanime7924 no entienden español
Nations whenever they’re at war:
*GAS GAS GAS*
In WW1 this has double meaning for Germany😁
@@lightningseven586 noooooooooooo, my great grandfather died back then. He tragically fell out of one of the guard towers overlooking the gas chambers
@@joshlawrence7093 What? I was talking about the trench gas in World War 1, not the gas chambers.
@@joshlawrence7093 I think your thinking of WW2 buddy
@@lightningseven586 let's be honest it had double meanings in both world wars for Germany
UK: Remember when that was us?
*looks at USA*
Germany: Yeah…
Ah yes remember when he was just a child look at him now blowing up innocent people I'm so proud.
@@binns5302 🙄
@@binns5302 I think you pronounce that *”acceptable casualties”*
/s
@@binns5302 inoccent people. No such thing.
@@binns5302 Says the subject of the queen whose empire conquered 1/3 of the planet through military force, mostly by firing cannons at dudes armed with bows and arrows LOL…
3:44 Soviet union: "Hi all!"
Russia: "Bye all!"
World: "Um, what?!"
Yeah, perhaps they should have done that for China... it was a little weird seeing the PRC flag in the early 20th century while even showing the nationalist flag in wars with Japan.
I don't think they use all
That's american
I like how France is pretty consistently among the top 5 and yet they still end up being called cowards who are too afraid to fight
That reputation has been there since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870s and then all went downhill from there
@@buddermonger2000 I thought that myth was mainly forged during WW2?
@@themaninabucket8365 No that's when it was cemented but uh... yeah no that started in the Franco-Prussian War, Then in the Great War, then the second one, and then Vietnam. If you think a myth is from a single event usually you can find something else before it.
@@buddermonger2000 fascinating. Keep up the good work
As the saying goes
"The French copy no one, and no one copys the French."
I like how the USA doesn’t even need a standin military all they need is home defence and a good navy and they’re safe xd
Worked for the uk
We do have a strategic umbrella that's the reason we spend a lot
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 only 102 billion out of the nearly 800 billion is used for defence
@@prestonokk6355 what do you mean? Elaborate please
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 The United States military budget is nearly 800 billion dollars, only 102 billion is allocated to defence, the rest of it is used for a standing military, navy, airforce etc
American spending during its Civil War: *happens*
America: I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.
Stellar comment. Kids won't get the BTTF reference 🤭
Got the reference~
USSR bankrupted their people with military expenditures.
USA: hold my beer.
Only difference, we’re still here and richer than ever
@@alexnowicki286 LuL
@@alexnowicki286 richer unequally yes.
The great Soviet Union never collapsed by itself it was all an Initial Western plan. The US got pro-American traitor Gorbachev in power who destroyed the Soviet Union. The US knows it can never beat Russia in military might so they use and have used traitors like Navalny and Gorbechev to down the great and almighty power against their terrorism around the world.
@@alexnowicki286 true they will never destroy us. We're back to destroy their sweet dreams and world order
It was really insane to see how the Soviet Union skyrocketed it’s military spending in between the First World War and the second one. Like, honestly... it was by far the number one in the world... I expected it to just trade places during the Cold War... but this was surprising
Did u see how America skyrocketed and it still grows
@@lordium1848 not surprised
It's kinda weird to think that US military spending used to make sense.
No, you just forget how unimportant we were then. Back in the cold war we spent 7% of GDP on defense, now it's half of that. Defense spending took up a half of a third of all yearly US spending in 2019. Now with the pandemic it's a even smaller percentage.
@@kingzahhak911 the us military literally hasn't accomplished anything useful since WWII
They got Saddam. They liberated Kuwait. They protected South Korea, and if we kept giving South Vietnam spare parts and oil they would persisted as well. They invaded Grenada and Panama. They deterred Soviets in Europe and the Chinese in Taiwan. Our navy protects global trade. It's scheer power makes despots think twice before doing stupid stuff. It's presence gave Europe assurance that the system of military and economic compitition had ended, allowing them to integrate into the NWO. I wish we invaded more countries nowadays. Myanmar is in desperate need of an invasion, and so is Venezuela.
@@mattweger437 most modern technology and modern medicine comes from the U.S
@@kingzahhak911 Not sure about Venezuela, but you're right about Myanmar
4:28
United states is just like
"Your not that guy pal, trust me, your not that guy"
Kudos for working an Amos Burton quote into the mix.
Хмм а умеют у вас аккуратно мозги промывать .
@@protorhinocerator142 ayyyy
I've nearly finished season 3
you know it's serious when the united states has to spend over 4, almost 5 times as much as the next on the leaderboard against itself
Next ten barely match what the USA spends.
there was a point when we outspent the next 18 countries combined. But it is a bit misleading because our defense industry is private companies who pay corporate taxes and all their employees pay income taxes. More than 25% of our defense spending immediatly comes back as taxes the following year. unlike a country like Saudi Arabia whose defense spending pretty much all goes to us companies
Perfect timing on the music for the Cold War.
China at the end trying to stretch to where the US is... “How does he do it?”
no, we don't wanna do that. China focus on reduce poverty population till now . Chinese minitary cost is about 1.3%-1.4% of its GDP.
@@willzhong2229 it's much higher
@@willzhong2229 I mean, they're probably just hiding their true spending.
@@scott7224 we build Chinatowns everywhere. The ultimate weapon is Chinese culture :)
@@levelazn Yeah but the enemy is the CCP Not the Chinese people. So we don't exactly care.
World looking at US spending: Compensating for something?
USA: Yeah. Weak allies.
Not really. If the us lowered its defence spending then France, Britain’s and Germany’s budgets would skyrocket to over $100B a year each most likely.
@@scottwhitley3392 no it wouldn’t lmao they don’t even spend 5% on NATO
@@lesscringeymapperdude yes it would. The U.K. has left the EU and it’s defence budget jumped by £20billion a year.
@Heinrich Heinrich fair point
@@scottwhitley3392 ah ok
France after more than 1000 years on top : let's take a little break
More like retirement at this point.
@@tangow371 no bro, don't worry the comeback is coming
@@tangow371 well, still the best European army by far, so...
@@paflamenace6513 Well yes but at this point there is no need for army in Europe itself.
More like 50 years. The chart conveniently ignores every Chinese dynasty ever existed.
Everyone: nooo U.S you can't just keep your military spending up significantly more than everyone!
U.S: I missed the part where thats my problem
*Looks at everything in America that desperately needs funding but isn't military*: "Yes, we can see that."
I’d rather be by far no. 1 than barely no. 1.
USA : *puts hundreds of billions in military stuff for decades*
Americans : I see this as an absolute win
@Todd Lerfahndler Well it is sad to see. How can you think that spending so much money into military is a win. Yes the US kind of is obligated to keep its budget high because of China but honestly even then your argument doesn't make sense.
@Todd Lerfahndler EXACTLY
@@Boombi_ it's not that high were spending 2.2% of our gdp on the military. China has just hit 6.9% of there gdp in military.
@Todd Lerfahndler yeah Americans totally not genocide an entire civilization to settle. Those 40 millions natives didn’t exist anyway.
@@freddarau 3.4 not 2.2, and thats just gdp, of actual budget it is more like 15%
From 1931 onwards: Germany starts huge re-armament of its army
WW1 winners: This is fine, totally fine, whats the worst thing that could happen :)
They knew but didn't do anything due to the great depression, and they didn't take hitler seriously
@@tcg1_qc ye I know, and they thought that appeasement policy would work and that Hitler would stop making more demands...and I guess there was also more of a fear of Stalin and spread of communism at the time as well, so that too had an effect on how things went
The most funny of all the things Hitler didn't even wanted to fight the brits nor the us but for some reason the brits wanted to criple germany no matter what
@@viktorolasz8583 well Brits with Chamberlain in charge tried the appeasement policy to the very end by not lifting a finger when Germany broke treary of Versailles one piece at a time and annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia. However after the latter happened, UK and France had made pact with Poland in hopes it would stop Hitler with his ambitions to expand Germany's borders even further but Hitler thought that UK and France were just bluffing and would yield as they had done before. UK would have completely lost their face if they had not declared war on Germany when the invasion of Poland started.
So quite the contrary, UK didnt want war either but Hitler's actions in the end left them no choice and ofc afterwards there was no other solution to the war than to force Nazi Germany to complete surrender and purge Nazi party and Nazi ideology from Germany entirely
@@Balnazzardi Hitler only wanted to unite germany people because the poor treatment of germanys in the lost teritorys and poland refused to meet hitlers demands twice (first they wanted an auotobach to the lost germany lands,second stop harassing the germanys) and also the UK did not join the war like they promised to poland they just watched hitler and stalin tearing poland apart.
I like how Mexico poped in like "yo wassup ok bye"
Mexico: Hey!
Other Countries: No!
Mexico: Okay...
I love how Russian invasion of Afghanistan fails and they just collapse lmao
It was a couple things, chernobyl was pretty big factor too
Well Afghanistan is graveyard of empires.
@@SmokeDog1871 Chernobyl was not a factor for Russian collapse it was sad and emotional but the Russian collapse was attributed to the extreme unstable politics and economic factors the USSR collapsed because the violence and repression it was founded upon was useless after glasnost and perestroika
@@Dk-ie4te honestly, usa is graveyard of ussr ( but it's true that ussr needed more moral and physical freedom for their citizens. That broken Perestroika gived a lot of dies, wild-wild capitalism, and destroyed any humanity and national idea of Russians and other ussr nations. We are still suffering. We were beaten, destroyed from the inside, and still getting sideway look at us. That's why we have such a backlash nowadays.
@@heyyo6050 well it's a sign of over-extension. If your empire needs Afghanistan to expand it means you're too wide and soon will die of your own bureaucracy and military spending
The US just drops into every war with it's back pocket change lmfao
It creates the wars often
USA: "No. 1 is No. 1, even if it costs me hundreds of billions of dollars"
Tbh comparing our military budget to our actual GDP is like comparing an ant to a mountain
@@silverfruit14 and what about debt
@@elfugaming4296 Even if the US stopped spending anything on the military... we'd still be at a budget deficit. Government spending for ya.
@@83athom us:debt
Joe biden:1.9 trillion here maybe a couple billion there maybe another trillion
And still No.2 or 3
The USA during the American Civil War: (spends lots of money)
Rest of world "Wow!"
USA: "And this isn't even my final form yet."
Yugoslavia be like: hey everyone I'm Yugosl- bye everyone!
As a German it feels quite weird to see my country in the top ten. Nowadays it feels like we dont spend any money on military
That’s because the world enjoys the little brother spending all our money to keep wars over there and not over here.
That's not a bad thing
Seems like they spend the money very efficiently
@@jaschlit well we don't have problems here with that. So it's fine I guess
And now imagine the NATO wants us (Ger) to double that.
The USA from WWII onwards: “So anyway I started spending”
pov: when your friend finds out they can bring things from creative mode to survival
I love how the US hit 1 billion as soon as we came out of the depression, even before we were involved with WWII, and just never looked back
The military spending is the reason that the US came out of the depression, not the other way around.
@@supremturtle4491 you are 100% correct
@@supremturtle4491 you are 100% correct, if they wouldn't fight with other countries, they would have to work for that money instead of stealing it from other country's
@@nieznajomy7 ..............
@@nieznajomy7 America haters are so strange. Freedom to live on this planet is thanks to the US, that's really just a fact. If not the USA it would need to be someone else.
1:15 Invention of warp speed
Have you watched the Iran-Iraq part?
America before each world war: yeah this seems like an aight budget
America entering the world wars: If yall cant finish it, I fucking will
1800s** France: I’m king here.
1900s** France: well I welcome the soviet union as our new king.
No idea what you're talking about
@@Mintpoet I have tho and france was the power of mainland europe until the revolution came and then the soviet union got big on ideas and then their ideas paid off.
You have something to say?
No offense on that question.
@Gaussianform I'm not a gamer though. I'm just a plain historian.
@@gabrielsusas3722 I disagree, France while powerful became the laughing stock of Europe after the French-Prussian war which gave Prussia Alsace Lorraine.
By 1871 Germany became the strongest country in Western Europe until their defeat in WW2
God, what a terrifying infographic. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
I hope it was enjoyable!
It was!
Love the music choice for this one 👍🏽
I’m glad you enjoyed!
@@RankingCharts might be way out into left field, but did you happen to get this music choice by watching Terra formars? 👀
World War: *Begins*
America: "I am speed."
Uncle Sam, addressing the people: "I need your money for ... for .... defense!"
🤡🤣🤣👍
@@vladimirfasyura8191 There’s a reason America’s still on top 😎
Когда на СССР напали Америка помогала , я не а
помню как в наступлении ,но Берлин пополам разделили
America is a continent not a country
Japan and Germany always close together d'awww
U. S. be like:
*Skippedibap 'm dada*
-Nagasaki-
France and Uk too
Awwww
Two best countries
The Americans whenever they get into a war: Hello, I’d like to make a withdrawal please.
I'm American and you are absolutely correct!!!!!
This was very fun to watch great video
I’m glad you enjoyed! Stay tuned for more!
Everyone: NOOOO you can't just spend billions on military equipment and spend more money than us
US: HAHAHA money go brrrrrr
3:45 is the best moment!
Germany: hi there
USSR:
Germany:by there
I prefer 1:23
after seeing the clip I agree
Makes you question the vagueness of the "War on terror", since it looks like both the U.S and Soviet/Russia have fought wars continuously since WW2 only to indirectly fight each other, and now being the current military top dog, the U.S needs another justification than Russia/China to maintain its huge military spending and real-scenario training of their troops.
apparently the U.S has treaties to defend 51 other nations, has unofficial alliances with numerous groups, and constantly gets called to oppose things like genocide in other countries.
@@dr.pepper6474 oppose?
More like indirectly support using private armies
Proxy wars... for examples see Central America... and we’re still dealing with the consequences from those... it’s not Mexicans trying to climb the wall, it’s people from the places we screwed up to to “stop the Commies.”
The US is seen as the world's top defender and offender for their allied/unofficial allied nations, a middle man in which a war breaks out, so to a certain extent it's understandable why they spend so much.
@@dr.pepper6474 The U.S is not alone in having such a role internationally, yet they have a military spending that most other countries can't even be compared to.
Do you think the huge military spending is solely based on good will? And if yes, would you say the same for Russia?
Just wish the flags were accurate for their times. For example, China and Yugoslavia.
As far as i saw yugoslavia was accurate. Correct me if i'm wrong tho
And Germany 😳
@@vadimblyat5436 When they first appear in the timeline(20's), Yugoslavia and China were a kingdom and a republic respectively
I don’t think they’ve got the eggs to throw the Chinese national flag up
I don’t blame him it would be a lot of work
1941 America to Germany: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Ai malf
Deko estrada go brrrr
Soviet Union defeated germany, not USA, but okay
They didn't really do anything in ww2 Europe until 1944 though...
@@kreghzde As well as Great Britain
My face brightened up when I saw Australia pop up near the end.
Get ready for the Emu war 0.2
1830:
[...]
Germany
[...]
"Something's wrong I can feel it"
4:44 everyone's gangsta until the real gangsta enters, just after independence
@Amelia Jones India
@Amelia Jones both
If anyone is wondering, the Soviet Union’s military budget exploded in the 1920’s because of the Russian civil war (1917-1922), the Polish-soviet war (1919-1921), and independence wars of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1918-1920. Basically the Russians were fighting like 5 wars at once
I like how there’s a massive bass drum hit in the music when 1911 rolls around (WW1).
WW1 - 1914-1918
the fact that the ussr spent more money on military most of the cold war is interesting, especially considering their equipment and army military wages were cheaper
you have to factor in all the juicy corruption of a communist system
@@THEoneYETI what?
@@lewkie9825 how the USSR spent more money, yet had a worse military with worse gear and worse wages. Corruption
All the oligarchs taking in extra spending money from military funds ;)
@@THEoneYETI the Soviet military technology wasn't any worse than American at the time.
In my lover of history opinion the US’s spending mainly results from 2 ideas: 1) The US should never fight a war on American soil and 2) we need to have the flexibility to use something other than nukes for when someone (mainly the USSR when this was developed developed) does something we don’t like. A lot of the spending also comes from the inefficiencies of the American military system, we got 3/4 separate armies in the different branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) which all need separate equipment that needs separate development which costs a lot (which is why the pentagon loves wasting money on universal designs for everyone). It also doesn’t help that the US is fighting a war somewhere since Vietnam. This is why military spending is always so high and is partially why the US is sooooo in debt (the other big contributor is Healthcare, bailouts [which is actually related to national security more than not since companies like GM are the ones whose factories we would use to fight a major war] and other such stimulus which we can’t pay for but politicians love passing because it makes them look good).
world war: starts*
US: gonna have to show off here for a moment
America: We need more death machines!
Ford and DuPont: Hold my beer.
@@pillmill8987
That...that's what war is
"Fine. I'll do it myself."
Its funny how Italy always been somewhere in the middle then for a second it goes completely down and that second is ww2 😂
World war starts>American military spending skyrockets>world war ends, rinse, repeat
Till the cold war...
When China's and Russia's combined spending is less than half of the us
usa presidents : we need to protect ourselves from Russia and China
China's military is more advanced now, and way more efficient too, so
@@Retrofire-47 you are so misinformed its funny if usa air force fought China's it would be like china had paper planes
@@spymaster3366 that’s not how war works.
Tf they all have enough to destroy the world a few times. Doesnt matter
With 7000 nuclear war heads, US is complaining and "worried" about China for expanding its meager 300-ish warhead arsenal
The soundtrack really fits well with the video.
6:29 : India: "Hello"
6:35 : india: "Bounjour"
6:38 : India: "Konichiwa"
I wish we could see the military spending of France around napoleons time. But I don't know if that can even be predicted lol. It'd be insane if there was one from 1800 - 2000 though.
Japan in 1941: Bombs the US
The US economy: 4:28
Japan: [chuckles] I'm in danger.
Germany: what's your next move japan?
Japan: well the U.S. took our oil trade so we're bombing them
Germany: maybe not do that?
Japan: already did
Germany: YOU WHAT?!?!
Yeah it didn't turn out well for them lol
Love the playing of Holst throughout. Perfect! 👍
This seems to show a trend over time that started with large countries increasing military spending during wartime and changed to countries just permanently maintaining a large military budget.
That’s because modern military equipment is so incredibly complex and hard to make, you can’t just make a load of F35’s and aircraft carriers when a war starts, you have to have that all ready and hope it’s lasts you the war.
Classy music choice ;) played it in orchestra this year
USA: Unlimitied POOOOOWAH!
hahaha
Let's give this man a round of applause for the tome he took editing this. Couldn't have been fun or easy😆
Start of the video: yeah that's wrong
End of the video: yeah, seems accurate
Мне кажется наоборот
italy: spends 30 billion in military spending
italian students: I just want to be happy
US: spends 700 billion dollars on military
Sweden: haha submarine goes "..."
Also Sweden: relies on US support and equipments.
@@randomeastasian347
lol
Interesting video. Though the choice of music was odd. I think the "The Circus Theme Song" would've fit much better.
Someone: *Looks at America funny*
America: “C’MERE BOY TIME FOR A WHIPPIN’!”
America sees someone look at them a little bit weird
America: aight let's spend all our money in military and destroy them.
Nice historically accurate flags you got there
No swastika lol
@@shresthsinha8345 stfu it is not swastika
@@akshatsharma9740 so the nazi flag was not swastika?
Imagine if atleast 1/4th of the money US spends on military goes to NASA..
*free healthcare. Space exploration comes after social welfare
@@askeladden450 alot of people join the army for its benefits. When those are good for every citizen less people would join it. That might be the reason why the US doesn't have some of those social services.
Yes. Or other scientific exploration.
@@askeladden450 you'd have about 100 dollars a person in health care
@@askeladden450 you’re basically asking the government to hemorrhage hundreds of billions each year on something that’s person can work for
Good Video! But I would apreciate even correcter names in the future. For example: Prussia instead of Germany, Ottoman Empire for turkey etc. thanks :) and keep up the good work
As someone from the Netherlands it was interesting to see the Netherlands on this list because we are one of the smallest countries of Europe.
That moment when the longest war was the one where no one launched bombs.
When You realize USA could explore the whole space with that military spending.
Or fund some actual public health care program, or build some highspeed rail like China did.
@@vincentdesun well we have joe biden in office so don't expect anything
@@5n.k.l.312 Candidate Trump = Chad.
@@vincentdesun the thing is the US already spends more on health care than any other country (5x the military budget), but it's just done awfully. The problem isn't the amount of money but how it's spent
I agree and I think that all military spending to defend Europe should be cut. I live in Europe (probably the same country as you likely do based on your name, in Helsinki), and wonder why so many European countries depend on the US for military protection, yet so many of their citizens go on and on about how much the US spends on the military. (I'm aware that Finland is not a member of NATO, and also of the history with the USSR and the Nazis.) In general, I believe that many Americans are of the opinion that European countries, in general, can feel free to pay for their own defence any time that they wish. Then there'd likely be plenty of money to explore space.
Excellent presentation, I've been looking for something like this.