I feel your sentiment, but the reality is straightforward - Arms manufacture in the US is years ahead of the EU. We’re catching up fast (not at wartime rate, but fast) but you guys were so, so far ahead of us that all we could do was look around and naively go “FUCK” then start pumping money into the problem (both supporting Ukraine financially and building our arms industry).
I feel your sentiment, but the reality is straightforward - Arms manufacture in the US is years ahead of the EU. We’re catching up fast (not at wartime rate, but fast) but you guys were so, so far ahead of us that all we could do was look around and naively go “FUCK” then start pumping money into the problem (both supporting Ukraine financially and building our arms industry).