Fact-check: “The US spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined”
Verdict: False (78% confidence)
SIPRI's most recent data — its April 2026 fact sheet covering 2025 — shows the US spent $954 billion, while the combined spending of the next 10 largest military budgets works out to roughly $1.12 trillion using SIPRI's own published percentage shares and world total. The same math on SIPRI's 2024 data ($997B US vs. ~$1.03T for the next 10) also runs against the claim. The claim was accurate in earlier years, but the documented record on the most recent available data shows the combined total o…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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