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See, the way counting works, is that you count to 1 first, and then go on to count to 10.
But in a slightly less dickish answer, Europe is fundamentally at peace. We're doing peacetime production, meaning that companies will only produce what they can sell at a profit until they at the very least recoup the investment. If the EU starts making 1.5m shells per month, nobody will buy them. Companies being companies, they will maximize profit, meaning they only really want to build efficiently.
Russia is fundamentally at war. They will buy every single shell anyone can produce. Screw profit, screw efficiency. If you're hand-lathing 7 casings per year in your garden shed, they'll take em. Volume is more important than cost or efficiency. Retooling existing factories, putting up old, inefficiënt and unprofitable factories is a great idea if all you want is more at whatever cost.
But if/when Europe goes to war, the same will happen. BMW will start making military trucks, Corus will be making shells and armor, Lego starts making claymores etc etc. But we're not doing that right now, because economics doesn't work like that.
We are at the same war as Russia. If we don't outproduce Russia then what is our winning strategy?
Yeah, support for Ukraine is really half assed at best. The winning strategy seems to be waiting on the Orange to do something which he won't ever.
A proxy war is different than a hot war on your doorstep.
I mean, we SHOULD be, but honestly, we're not
Lego claymores. Like the sound of it. Coby claymores. BlueBrixx claymores. God it sounds amazing!
Hopefully coming with a minifigure so lego fanboys will buy it too /j
Behold, a Lego claymore:
One wrong step and it's game over
Stepped on thousends of those. They dont hurt. I dont know what you are on about.
Now a D4 metal dice though...!