Yeah, the war industry in the west is absolutely wild. It's like a scene from a Bond movie there. I think the part they're not taking into account is the unravelling of the economic situation in the west. Forcing countries to ramp up military production will necessarily mean having to do more austerity while people are already starting to get rowdy about their standard of living collapsing. I really expect that the whole NATO and EU money making schemes could end up collapsing in a few years as a result of that. These kinds of grand alliances only work when the going is good. As soon as the economy starts deteriorating you start seeing ladder pulling happening.

Nationalist sentiment is starting to take hold both in Europe and in US. Countries are going to start focusing on protecting their piece of the pie, and they're not going to want to share what they have left with others. We'll start seeing old animosities resurface, as is already happening between Poland and Germany, and recriminations over who's not doing enough. It's going to be an incredibly toxic environment where no real unity is going to be possible.