@RegalBeagle @Bad_Banner @IAMAL_PHARIUS @TrevorGoodchild Correct on all counts, I'm still conflicted whether it was normal incompetence or outright self sabotage by what we both recognize as the doomsday death cult.

The EU de-industrialization was an old kikes plan after ww2, but being Americans not so insane back then, they denied that and set up the Marshall plan, then caught the dividends (both economically and politically) from it.
Now the US is killing EU arms industry, wrote a bit on this subject already, the US companies want to absorb the european sector and then, probably, have everyone depending on american output and licenses (poland got Patriots and Abrahms, to say) for weapons, weapons softwares and core strategic components.
Now, the thing is... this is not the 60's anymore, and the qualified personnel to work on certain fields is extremely limited.
So are the factories, even more so, particularly in Europe, a yearly output for Leopard or Challengers is considerably lower than most would imagine it to be (hardly, very, into the two digits...).
Back on the personnel, americans pay better, there's no doubt in that, the quiet absorbption however gets complicated, EU companies cannot work on american projects if they don't have american approved personnel, and if they take those figures into american companies or factories, EU-side production grinds completely to an halt.
I recently had a convo with an american colleague on this, and he stated that in America the qualified personnel is either retiring or lacking, so instead of forming young americans into the sector, they take established and experienced figures from wherever they can find them.
Preferably Europe, otherwise is India or Turkey, most of former USmil veterans could be filling these spots for the american industry if they weren't politically vetted out of it, I mean, the pay is real good even at its entry level, but they don't want White guys to have those jobs.
However the entire sector is stretched thin, multiple orders get scrapped, some are subcommissioned to smaller companies, others are left to hang, the priority is NOT business driven besides pretending it is, is purely political, and everyone can easily guess who's on top of it.
Not even America has the required industrial output for what they intend to do, isn't even hubris at this point, not anymore, as said, this isn't the 60's any longer, but once the EU industry is gone the situation will worsen considerably, EU orders will clog the American machine even further, they'll remain unsolved or otherwise, by charging an exaggerated overpricing for it, and most of Europe will be largely disarmed by a certain, well detailed timing.
I haven't even tackled the materials supply chain (most of it is definitely out of GAE's reach which increase the raw price overall, putting smaller national companies out of business for large, national related orders) or the screening, most of USmil veterans could be filling these spots for american industry if they weren't politically vetted out of it.
Subcompanies and suppliers are twisting in agony because "you'll get paid when I'll get paid", but ad infinitum.
Many are rolling over and falling out of business right now, in these days, and I repeat, this is crazy because the sector could be structurally considerably healthier.

sorry for this big autistic effortpoast.