They need tractable processes to both stump up the cash and agree what ratio of eu, friendly/near and non eu sources they can agree to use (I'm looking at you france)
They need to pull their finger out.
What has to change is posture and supply chains. The former demands a willingness to actually act. The latter demands spinning up. Spinning up takes time.
I wish I had shares in rheinmetall. Well, really no I don't but I think their prospects are good.
It is changing with the EU inserting itself as organisation in charge.
This should be absolutely pushed back against. France could stop this instantly if it had some backbone, which it sorely lacks at the moment.
It is fine to have a strong alliance and cooperation but the end game with the current trajectory is to finish off nation states as sovereign entities with the EU becoming the state. I don't think citizens have been asked for their opinion (obviously since they would reject it).
If Russia were to attack the EU (let be really crazy), they would take the easy first step of launching a cyber attack. It would put the continent in such a chaos they wouldn't even need to invade. Just look like at an isolated attack on Jaguar stopped their production for weeks/months.
No the EU is at war with it own citizenry now and the fancy drone is like Chat Control. Its purpose is to keep in check the people who paid for it.
saubeidl•2h ago