Nobody is moving goal posts. The scale of military industry in Europe is nowhere near what would be needed to replace the US. Expanding the industry to that scale would require an incredible amount of funding which can't happen given the state of European economies, not to mention energy prices in Europe. The fact that you don't understand such basic things really says volumes.
The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.
And they produce things on artisanal scale. Go look up what percentage of NATO military production the US accounts for.
Go look at the production numbers of these companies and compare them to the US, China, or Russia.
NATO members can't buy stuff from imaginary suppliers that don't exist in the real world.
The leader of the free world everybody.
oh yeah makes sense
Thing is that it was never about independence, it was about the US overthrowing the government in Ukraine to put in a complaint regime that would sell off Ukraine's resources to the west.
I do expect he will try to put tariffs on BRICS countries, and he might use Russia as the initial justification. The west is very likely to end up in a severe economic crisis as a result.
Either our civilization collapses or we actually get past capitalism and start becoming a space faring civilization.
Sanctions haven't worked for three years, and Russia has already successfully diverted its economy away from the west at this point. The Financial Post was literally just reporting how Russia’s budget revenue rose to a record high last month even after the US targeted the banking sector with a new round of sanctions aimed at disrupting foreign trade payments and curbing proceeds from exports.
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Nah, scale of military industry is measured in industrial capacity which is largely non existent in Europe. Also, a fun fact is that activities such as steel production are very energy intensive. The fact that Russia produces 3x as many shells as all of NATO combined shows just how far ahead Russia is industrially.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html