After 30 years of atrophy, experts say, Europe’s shrunken military industry will struggle to provide the Ukrainians with a million artillery shells by March.
That was a wild ride from usual narratives of atrophied European military production to "oh, and btw… the upscaled US production couldn’t produce enough shells over the whole next year to plug just the gap left between production and their goals.
But hey, the first part is in the headline and barely anyone reads to the bottom of an article anyway, right?
… Why should the US be fulfilling a promise the Europeans made? Especially when the Europeans know that any usually-“spare” US military production capability is currently spoken for, now and probably for the next decade.
That was a wild ride from usual narratives of atrophied European military production to "oh, and btw… the upscaled US production couldn’t produce enough shells over the whole next year to plug just the gap left between production and their goals.
But hey, the first part is in the headline and barely anyone reads to the bottom of an article anyway, right?
… Why should the US be fulfilling a promise the Europeans made? Especially when the Europeans know that any usually-“spare” US military production capability is currently spoken for, now and probably for the next decade.