Defense companies in China and Russia are mainly state owned so are less prone to the commercial pressures of those in the West.
Even the WSJ is admitting capitalism can’t keep pace with state-directed production, especially not at the scale of China and Russia combined. There may still be some hope left that the “realists” prevail and avoid starting WW3.
Or fascism lends a guiding hand.
Watching the west discover that the material reality actually matters has been the most hilarious thing over the past two years. All of a sudden these people are realizing that being able to make actual physical things is really important when you find yourself in competition with other countries.
Butbut…the are spending the most money on missiles. That MUST mean they are the best at missiling and automatically win, right?!
lots of people think exactly this unironically
“But…but…our spreadsheets!”
But they said that “USA! A-OK!”!?
Should’ve thought about that before wasting your entire supply on civilian genocide.
We badly need more missiles, there are brown people that haven’t been turned to ash yet! Did you consider that? Did you think about that you fucking idiots!? We. Need. More. Bombs!