Poland's PM urges Europe to act over Ukraine
Europe needs its own plan for Ukraine and for its own security or its future will be decided by other powers, the Polish Prime Minister said on Saturday.
Eu doesn't have the weapons to replace the US, much less do anything more. All action by EU and European Nato is at best a political stunt to make US and Trump to change their minds.
The European Union as a whole already spends more on defense than Russia or China, it is just a matter of coordinating spending by unifying efforts
Money spent=/=production or productive capacity or performance.
Everything in the west is just really fucking expensive, because defense industry is a racket meant to make profit not weapons.
And? Bying 1 152mm artillery shell at 4000$ doesn't automatically mean it is better than the 1000$ one, it just means you got overcharged.
It'll take a while for the supply chains to be created and to get to speed.
In the 3 years of the war we didn't seen any creation of the military industry in Europe, instead we did seen deindustrialisation in key countries like Germany and UK. Also their so called ally, US, actively supress them with energy prices and actions like Nordstream sabotage. Even the country which military expenditure risen the most, Poland, just buy weapons in Occupied Korea, with barely any effort of sustainability other than forking money. And all that even before we talk about corruption and wastage in governments and military industries.
It's a herculean task to create the sort of military industry Russia or US have. Aside from supply chains, there's energy production, factories, workers, engineers that would be needed to spin up such industry. It's a decades long process. Either European leaders have absolutely no clue how modern industry works or they're just cynically lying to European public.