Fact-check: “The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
SIPRI's most recent data (2025 figures, published April 2026) shows the U.S. spent $954 billion while the next 10 countries combined spent roughly $1,167 billion — making the U.S. total about $213 billion SHORT of the combined figure, not more than it. The claim has a kernel of truth in that the U.S. is by far the world's largest single military spender and dominates global defense budgets, but the arithmetic simply does not support 'more than the next 10 combined' in any recent year with avail…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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