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Russia forced to cut military spending for first time in 20 years, even as neighbours boost budgets
Russian military spending fell by 20 per cent last year, even as European nations hiked their defence budgets for fear of Vladimir Putin's expansionist ambitions. The cut — the first decrease in Russia's military spending since 1998 — drops the superpower to fourth place on the list of the world's biggest military spenders behind the United States, China and Saudi Arabia.
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That's, of course, just how treacherously clever these Russian monsters are. They, diabolically, win their wars and end them. How can the U.S. possibly hope to defend itself against unholy logic like that? By my count we're currently in nine hot wars, and last I heard were running special ops in 160 countries. We don't stand a chance!