https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135509

this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing

  • Barbariandude [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    It’s not only the US industry ramping up. Companies across Europe are expanding existing ammo factories and making new ones. With the blank cheque that Ukraine has been given by the US, they’re not doing this for free.

    You can cynically look at this as “sacrificing the livelihoods of citizens”, and I’m not going to stop you if you want to see it that way, but in some specific countries, any sign of weakness towards Russia by a politician would cause that politician to be thrown out. If not by vote of no confidence, then by mob.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You’re contradicting yourself because you’re not being specific, it’s not “companies across europe” it’s the native defense industries of only a few countries, Germany, France, UK and maybe Italy none are which the insane eastern states that would lynch a politican for negotiating with russia

      The rest would blow a hole in their budget if they attempted to expand local industrial production of weapons beyond a certain point

      And the big countries don’t want to expand cause that will also blow a hole in their budget, Europe is ruled by Americanized ordoliberals, the cratering of millions of their citizen’s livelihoods didn’t stop them from cutting the state and a proxy war in Ukraine isn’t gonna stop them either

      They’ll waste money on expensive overenineered American garbage and then call it a day and the Eastern states can go back to the Soviet Union to replenish their stock- oh wait no they can’t they’ll also have to buy trash Anerican weapon systems