Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.
Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.
They actually placed some massive orders in recent years. Mostly of the sort of stuff you really need to win wars, but is not fancy enough to make it to front page news like ammunition, communication, intelligence assets and so forth. There are also a lot more orders in the works.
The main issue is that they can not hire enough soldiers.