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Another casualty of sanctioning Russian energy, UK is no longer able to make steel. This is the country doing the most sabre rattling about having a war with Russia. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 8 months ago

Why produce weapons and munitions yourself when you can just buy them from the US and enrich their military industrial complex? In fact from an American perspective, why does Europe need its own weapons industry at all? Better that they become fully dependent on the US, that way they are easier to control.