• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months 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.