-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Michael Pugliese Enviada em: sábado, 30 de junho de 2001 10:24 Para: lbo Assunto: Re:RES: Pax Americana (was Re: Defining Fascism)
CNN here says $4 Billion here. http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/14/russia.military/ (...The simmering war in Chechnya -- Russia's second military showdown with the breakaway Republic in five years -- is draining funds from a military budget, which has plummeted by about 75 percent from Soviet-era spending levels, to around $4 billion.
At about $4 billion, the budget is less than 3 percent of the country's total gross domestic product.)
-Hmmm, I don´t know. If 56 billion is somewhat high, US$4 billion seems to -be very low. Soviet spending was more than US$200 billion (15% of GNP), so -4 billion is a 95% decrease and probably this budget is even inferior to -Brazil´s one (US$5 billion). However, comparison with former USSR is -somewhat troublesome, since many defense industries produced civil goods -and the reverse was also true (Angelo Segrillo- "The causes of USSR decline")
Alexandre Fenelon