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Why Russia is far outpacing US/Nato in weapons production (responsiblestatecraft.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The USA has an ok supply chain, but Europe's supply chain has been crap for decades.

Until the Ukraine War, a lot of European countries never had to care about defense as important policy. They could rely on the USA if something happened and call it a day. Now, there is a decent risk that something could happen to then and the USA wouldn't respond.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Depends heavily on the item. With artillery shells most notably, we haven't been making them in really significant numbers for a lot of years. Something like small arms ammunition isn't so much an issue for us though.