[OC] UPDATE: Je weiter von Russland entfernt, desto weniger interessiert es Sie: NATO-Verteidigungsausgaben im Vergleich zur Entfernung von der russischen Grenze

This is an update to my earlier [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1hz7qva/oc_the_further_from_russia_the_less_you_care/).

Inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hyuhaw/the_association_between_defence_spending_and/) post in r/europe I created by own version with updated values from 2024 and the shortest distance from border-to-border. This time with actual 2024 values, including exclaves like Kaliningrad and including only NATO countries (with the US and Canada).

Values on defence spending are from a [NATO Press Release](https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pdf/240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf) (values as of June 2024) and the geospatial data from Eurostat. All analysis and plotting is done in R using the tidyverse packages, namely dplyr and ggplot2.

[Here’s](https://pastebin.com/ZfBpMk0M) the raw data.

The R2 is about 0.4 for the 2024 spending but basically 0 for the spending increase.

Eliminate the outliers who border Russia directly and the correlation is *much* weaker.

Your defence spending is unrelated to your distance from the Russian border unless you’re on it.

I feel like Greece is high because of Turkey, not Russia. but why is Turkey not on the list? probably Russia’s only ally in NATO

Putting the US at 0km to Russia is true but not truthfully.