Let's start with the spending, apparently "The 32 members of the world’s most powerful military alliance will spend $1.47 trillion this year.". There is a saying in Turkish, "Too many words cannot be without lies, too much money cannot be without cheating". Let's see how much I can dig.

So here's one, HIMARS gets 3x more expensive for no apparent reason. https://web.archive.org/web/20240902080302/https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/himars-triples-in-price-to-more-than-1-5-billion-for-no-apparent-reason/