As I explained in my original comment, you can't just create such industries overnight. These require building out supply chains, training workers, and so on. You can just look at how great reshoring chip production is going despite untold billions being poured into that to get an idea of what a monumental task this is.

Building out an industry on this scale is going to take years if not decades. Providing 100 billion to Ukraine in funding isn't going to do jack shit. Ukraine is running out of weapons and ammunition. Replacements for any of these don't exist, and production capacity is insufficient to make any actual difference in the foreseeable future.

Highly recommend reading this article from RUSI explaining these problems https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ship building and shell production are on the polar opposite ends of time requirements for industrial capacity building....the fact that you used ship building as an example here makes me wonder if you're being intentionally disingenuous....

Also, you don't seem to understand how these funding programs actually work if you think this is being allocated to build out Ukrainian domestic production capacity.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 7 months ago

Chip production might have different requirements from shell production, but it's a good example of how difficult it is to bootstrap an industry. Also, nobody is talking about allocating anything to Ukrainian domestic production capacity here. Maybe actually try and read that RUSI article till you understand what it's saying.