[OC] Defence budgets around the worldSubmitted by giteam t3_zx6596 in dataisbeautiful
BigBayesian t1_j23k7xt wrote
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It’d be great if there were some good way to measure corruption and put it into the graph. But I suspect that’d be hard. It might also be divisive - if a US senator holds up a defense appropriations bill until some spending for their district is added, is that corruption? I suspect you can find conflicting, earnest, legitimate answers to that question.
KaTaLy5t_619 t1_j23m4pu wrote
Very true. It's probably impossible to ever know for sure the true level of actual corruption. What might be easier to find is what proportion of the budget actually made it through to nee hardware or training, although I'm sure there's plenty of creative accounting that can be done to disappear a couple of billion pretty easily.
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