Afaik France want to lock in arms contracts that allow manufacturing in Europe rather than buying from the US to then send to Ukraine.

In theory that makes more sense long term.

Yeah, isn't the EU pretty explicit that their current production should increase not specifically for Ukraine but to be able to feed Europe in case of?

I think Ursula Van Der Leyen was pretty explicit about that most recently in terms of discussing artillery. Makes sense for France to want to keep manufacturing in the EU, regardless of if Ukraine falls or not.

Defence spending in EU countries will increase across the board and pretty much immediately in response to Russian aggression; I suppose the production part is a more long term outcome that remains to be seen.

Afaik defence manufacturers prefer 3-4+ year contracts as opposed to limited one time supply. Tooling up to produce 200k shells is far less profitable than tooling up for 5million over 10 years or whatever it might be.

Victoria Nuland RESIGNS, Glenn Greenwald EVISCERATES Leading Neocon: Interview

a good contribution to the topic. she is a horrible horrible person.

https://twitter.com/TravelGov/status/1765839290435604754
The US State Department has issued a travel warning for citizens in Moscow to avoid large gatherings out of the potential for an imminent terrorist attack against crowds, perpetrated by "extremists"

Boy there are so many ways to interpret that and none of them are good

As commented last year, with long range missiles and, "seemingly" nothing to lose, a direct strike on Moscow is expected this year. It will probably drive Russia insane. What could possibly go wrong. Utterly brain dead logic.

Now officially. The first people in Europe were Ukrainians. At the excavation site in Korolevo, petrified lard, a bust of proto-Bandera and petrified dollars earned by prostitution were discovered.

Source: Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07151-3

Thanks that was very important information. In other news the leader of the largest economy in history made a state of Union address



Mike Johnson looked like he was sitting on glass.

Zelensky visited Odessa to decorate a bunch of special forces nazis and the place was pounded with Iskander missiles. Sounds messy