Totally agree the US media is weak now but The NY Times did have a nice chart just yesterday ranking all the NATO nations based on percentage of their GDP they spend on defense. The US was No 1 (by far) spending 3.5 percent of our massive GDP on the military. Poland was 2nd with 2.4 percent and the UK was third with 2.2, then France at 1.9 which was just ahead of Romania at 1.8 percent.