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Bloomberg explains why Europe can't supply Ukraine with weapons fast enough (archive.ph)
submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/ukraine_war_news@lemmygrad.ml
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Defense contractors are forced to ramp up production but want long-term government guarantees of sales.

Business fears that they may expand production, but there will be no demand in three to five years.

Also, the lack of semiconductors and other problems with logistics have led to the fact that the order is three times longer than before the start of the conflict.

I thought we were told that it was all about protecting democracy and a free world, turns out it's all about money.

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[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

I think another aspect is that they don't want to have an actual all out war because that wouldn't serve the interests of oligarchs either. This is why NATO membership is being dangled in front of Ukraine like a carrot. They know perfectly well that if Ukraine was actually accepted into NATO then it would mean real war with Russia. What they want instead is a proxy war where weapons industry makes money while Russians and Ukrainians do the dying.

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