Rod Engelsman wrote:

> I've often wondered how they put together that particular statistic. You 
> know, there are a lot of countries where if you take American dollars 
> and convert them at the going exchange rate to the local currency,

But weapons manufacturers are mostly in the US anyways, and secondly in 
other first-world countries plus Russia. So, for equipment, it is a 
comparable measure.

However, like you say, the cost of *wages* won't be comparable at all.

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