What a difference a few decades make. Rheinmetall, Germany’s behemoth arms maker, announced last week that it will begin the production of gun barrels in the U.K. as part of a new defense agreement between London and Berlin—Europe’s two top military spenders.
Europe is dying, not just from yet another calamity of war, but because of the calamity of twisted Western modernity.
Russia's military has plans in place to attack targets across Europe with nuclear-capable missiles as war with Ukraine heats up and NATO continues to encourage Kyiv to strike deeper inside Russia.
Rising sales outside of Europe will offset an auto industry slump across the continent this year, German car parts manufacturer Continental AG said last week.
Just as the Israelis are annihilating Gaza, Western leaders are setting up the Western world for the same.
“Spending fatigue” has set in on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal reported, as shoppers in the U.K. spent 2.3 percent less in April than in March, the National Bureau for Statistics reported.
The EU is destined to fall apart and be balkanized, once again. A combination of demographic implosion and desperate immigration policies has, at this point, baked in a clash of civilizations.
It is an axiom of warfare that it is always desirable to have friendly territory beyond one’s own borders or the capacity to prevent the buildup of significant military power in neutral territory for an attack against one’s own territory.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said last week that Europe needs to come to terms with the fact that the “era of peace” on the continent is over and it is high time for countries to ramp up military production for war with Russia.
The construction industry in some of Europe’s largest countries is seeing a plunge in demand similar to that during the COVID War, Norsk Hydro, Europe’s largest aluminum producer, said in a recent statement.