As someone in defense, Boeing sucks.
Regardless, my point was just that spending targets were indeed pegged to GDP.
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The US has pressured Europe for decades to spend 2% of their GDP on defense.
The world war is already here, it's just not all-out yet. This policy change isn't going to be the instigator of it.
Regardless of Trump, the US is not the preeminent military or economic power in the world anymore. Further, the global climate is changing. As such, a global reshuffling of resources and alliances is inevitable.
Military budgets are placed based on the value of what they're protecting (physical assets, economic activity, etc), not based on the wealth of the people who could destroy your assets/activities.
Elite levels of competition like the Olympics are testing those statistical outliers/ extreme ends of the bell curve though.
I want to believe you, but the record for marathon time for men is faster than the record for women and the record for long swim events (1500m freestyle) for men is faster than the women's record.
This is wishful thinking. Democrats are still unwilling to change many of their policies that got them into this mess. People voted against the status quo in 2024, and Democrats are still trying to offer people a return to pre-Trump.
It's possible that Trump will turn people off enough that they vote for someone else, but if the US survives this term I feel like Americans will just view it with the same unreality with which they apparently regarded January 6th. Trump is weirdly slippery and none of his outrageous, glaring faults hurt him. He will have to utterly destroy things for people to decide he's a problem at this point.
Or a kerb, for that matter (wtf is that spelling?!)
Oh this is so surprising. I typically use corn starch to thicken sauces. Have you compared xanthan gum head-to-head with corn starch?
I was never a huge baker before the diagnosis, so now we mostly stick to quick breads and cookies when it comes to baking. Those types of recipes usually suffice with either baking soda or baking powder if using an all-purpose GF flour like the King Arthur mix. The best tasting GF flour I've tried though is Bob's Red Mill, and they do specifically recommend (and sell separately) xanthan gum for various types of baked goods. Even when I follow their (Bob's Red Mill) recommendations though, the dough is still typically a bit runny.
Growth of GDP is irrelevant. The article you linked doesn't say that they are increasing spending targets by 5%. The article said they are increasing spending targets from 2% of GDP to 5% of GDP. They are increasing spending targets by 150%.
Look, defense spending isn't a monotonic relationship with GDP. It's a risk assessment taking into account the value of your assets and activities as well as the size of the threat faced. In the 90s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was basically no large threat to the international US-led order. The US still had to maintain a base level of funding to squash upstarts (pirates, ...Iraq), but the safety of high value assets and activity could be insured with much less funding.
Your initial argument was that spending on defense ought to be on par with the value of the threat faced, which makes no sense. Spending on defense is insurance to protect what makes you money. You don't price flood insurance for your home on the cost of that many gallons of water. You price it based on the value of your home and the likelihood of it flooding.