Try 3.54% for Greece, almost half of which goes to hardware (the rest is army salaries and expenses). Germany has announced that it "might even" increase its spending to a comparable 3.5%. We've been doing it for decades, even when our economy had tanked (see what I did there?)

Europe basically borrowed our culture, regurgitated it back to us when we got rid of the Ottomans after 4 centuries of occupation and we've been trying to catch up ever since.

Meanwhile our last imperial enterprise (conquering the Roman Empire culturally from within) ended in 1453. Our last Empire was gone even before Columbus sailed for "India". We've been colonized ever since.

We're the kings of the suckers!