Fact-check: “The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined”
Verdict: False (92% confidence)
Using SIPRI’s latest widely used cross-country military-expenditure dataset, the United States spent about $997 billion in 2024, while the next 10 biggest spenders together spent about $1,032 billion. That means the U.S. did not outspend the next 10 combined on SIPRI’s 2024 numbers, even though it did outspend any single country by a wide margin.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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