The Economist has ingeniously created a way of making Russian defense spending look much greater than European NATO defense spending, even though the latter is almost four times as much as the former:
"How do we make 265 seem smaller than 70?" asked the editors… @AmyJaffeenergy http://t.co/CZ4XYL68a0 pic.twitter.com/1wvBg6YKiy
— Robert Farley (@drfarls) February 16, 2015