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I’m a non-native English speaker, learned it by watching cartoons without subtitles when I was a wee little squirt

Europe does produce more artillery shells than the US or at least that was the situation the last time I checked a few months ago, but I was specifically wondering about missiles since that’s what was brought up in the headline (and drones too although I didn’t mention it in my previous comment).

Not sure we even have locally produced ground launched missiles that’d be equivalent to eg. the ATACMS? I’m honestly not too up to speed on the military industry situation; I do know that the European missiles that are most often in the news – SCALP-EG and Taurus – are both air-launched.

I’m maybe not quite as optimistic about thinking that US reich-wingers would be averse to dictators, considering how happily they’ve gone along with a domestic dictator, and how obviously enamored many conservatives are with Russia (or a Russia-like system in any case.)

But my ultimate problem with relying on the US for, well, anything really is that there are no guarantees that the Trump regime or one of its successors won’t just leave us out to dry, or won’t try to extort us in exchange for aid. As long as a conservative mafia-like regime is in power, any agreement isn’t going to be worth the paper it’s written on

NATO outproduces the Russians, or mostly the US outproduces them? Do eg. Rheinmetall or Nammo produce missiles?

This distinction is important because I doubt we can actually trust the US as an ally against Russia at this point.

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