• @OwlPaste
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    510 hours ago

    Probably the main question is how long can Europe defend itself for. This conflict showed us that EU stockpiles of conventional weapons are questionably small for a real conventional war. That’s the bit that we needed US for. We utterly failed to provide sufficient ammunition and weapons for Ukraine by ourselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 hours ago

      When the war started pretty much every European military placed some massive orders. So new production mostly did not go to Ukraine. But a lot of weapons are domestic and built in a large quantity. Also not everything from the stockpiles was send to Ukraine. That is just too risky.

      So long enough to scale up production and use the EUs large economy.