Important to point out that the source of these numbers is an intel agency front organization and therefore the numbers are completely contrived.

To the extent they are based on something that is useful to someone who funds the think tank, it's likely a measure of how much money laundering to other agency linked organizations in the given countries (and the impacts on forex).

The US is a great example with its military aid. Our military industrial complex gets to dust off some old ordinance that was never going to be used, and would have instead needed to be paid to be destroyed, and mark it up to sell to the government who prints the money for it based on the narrative around this "war". Not only do they get to sell this obsolete ordinance, they get to charge for transport, logistics, training, and all the stuff that goes with it. Then, new money to replace it with new stuff for the next war.