re: US military spending
Well, that's interesting, but now take a look at this.
Hey, a favorite trick of the left is to express statistics in terms of percent of GDP to distort them. I can do it too.
I don't know why Russia does not appear on the graph, but the last figure I could find gives their GDP at about $400 billion (dollars), which would make the $65 billion in military spending given here about 16 percent of GDP. This would put them at about number 4 on the graph, compared to America at number 43. The entry for China has a caveat that, if the graph were accurate, would put them somewhere between 20 and 38.