Name:   phil - Subject:   Let's break that down.... Date:   5/30/2017 4:57:30 PM

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-chart-11

now lets take a look at some charts for those too dumb to read words.

The US is not ground zero of warzone nor is it adjacent to much.  We have a lot of water around us for some level of defense.

Now many countries who are actually right up in the cesspool of Europe that we would really like to see stay there if for no other reason then to make sure we can can put a missle/defense in Putins backyard and to protect the little guy that we really would prefer to stay there and not become another ISIS, IRAN, Lybia....  

Now is the world safer today then 1991??(Lets use that since that is where these charts start from) 

I believe what we could say is that with ISIS, terrorism and all the worlds problems -  that the world is not as safe of a place since 1991, but people are spending less and less( the graphs are all sloping down and down and down ) to not only their own defence but with that reduction is also a reduction to what is available to NATO as a whole when that need arises.

So instead of spending some money on missles, tanks and airplanes that may or may not be needed - when war breaks out somewhere, who is going to be left footing the next war  in terms of manpower, weapons and taxpayer money. Because I did not spend it when I could, and now that I really am in a hornets nest and need help I am too busy or its tied up and not liquid enough to get what is needed, but I have a great big taxbase back in the USA willing to fund me to freedom - while I who do not have natural defenses and do not think it is as important will worry about it tomorrow.