Poland has been sounding the alarm while the rest of the EU sat on its hands for years. Suppose that’s easy to do when the threat isn’t literally on your doorstep.
Let‘s not try to rewrite history here by pretending Poland and Hungry weren‘t best buddies in their jointventure to erode democracy in the EU a few years ago.
They’ve been ramping up acquisition and production as much as they reasonably can the last few years. The rest of us should really follow their example. Luckily the production is increasing all over Europe, though it should have begun much much sooner than this. The hard part going forward is manpower (as stated in the article), and all the command structures needing to be rebuilt without the US. And, over time removing the dependence on America for air defence, both planes and land-based missile defences. Fully local drone production is also going to be a game changer, as we have seen the importance of drones in Ukraine.
Poland has been sounding the alarm while the rest of the EU sat on its hands for years. Suppose that’s easy to do when the threat isn’t literally on your doorstep.
History repeats itself, poland was sounding the alarm in 1939 but the allies made them stand down. I doubt they make that mistake again
Let‘s not try to rewrite history here by pretending Poland and Hungry weren‘t best buddies in their jointventure to erode democracy in the EU a few years ago.
They’ve been ramping up acquisition and production as much as they reasonably can the last few years. The rest of us should really follow their example. Luckily the production is increasing all over Europe, though it should have begun much much sooner than this. The hard part going forward is manpower (as stated in the article), and all the command structures needing to be rebuilt without the US. And, over time removing the dependence on America for air defence, both planes and land-based missile defences. Fully local drone production is also going to be a game changer, as we have seen the importance of drones in Ukraine.