Our Bloated Defense Budget

It's no surprise that the US military is a mighty organization, but this map, found in Bank of America's "Transforming World" atlas, dramatizes exactly how enormous our defense budget is in context:

You can read the rest @

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/23/9189153/us-defense-spending-international-comparison

Do we really have that many enemies?

And in this context, how can Russia be an "existential threat" to the US? What kind of crap are they teaching at the US Military Academy anyway?