The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.
And who’s fault is that? The US has been creating its own military industrial complex for the last 75 years, spending literally half of its budget on useless weapons that will barely get used, all at the cost of benefits that its citizens could have had.
Meanwhile, Europe has two tugboats and some leftover AK-47s in a warehouse somewhere.
It’s more like 15% of the whole annual budget. About half of the discretionary budget, but then you add in interest payments and social security and things like that.
But yes, the rest of the Western world has been complacent as hell.
And who’s fault is that? The US has been creating its own military industrial complex for the last 75 years, spending literally half of its budget on useless weapons that will barely get used, all at the cost of benefits that its citizens could have had.
Meanwhile, Europe has two tugboats and some leftover AK-47s in a warehouse somewhere.
You make it sound like I said something different?
It’s more like 15% of the whole annual budget. About half of the discretionary budget, but then you add in interest payments and social security and things like that.
But yes, the rest of the Western world has been complacent as hell.