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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by rini17 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:13AM (#47908748)
It's subtler than that. Europe was just constantly reminded by its big brother not to duplicate NATO structures, which are dependent on the US.
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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by don_esteban on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:46AM (#47909547)
This.

Plus, of course, each European country has to support their own defense industry, so each one of them needs to have their own howitzer/tank/whatever and they can't agree on common approach that would actually allow for the economy of scale.

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