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That was a wild ride from usual narratives of atrophied European military production to "oh, and btw... the upscaled US production couldn't produce enough shells over the whole next year to plug just the gap left between production and their goals.
But hey, the first part is in the headline and barely anyone reads to the bottom of an article anyway, right?
.... Why should the US be fulfilling a promise the Europeans made? Especially when the Europeans know that any usually-"spare" US military production capability is currently spoken for, now and probably for the next decade.
That wasn't the point.
They wrote a whole article about Europe's "atrophied and for so long neglected arms industry" yadda, yadda... and how Europe is thus struggle to even hit the 1 million shell per year mark aimed for.
And then at the very end they mention that the U.S.' own upscaled production even when reaching next year's production goals is only ~50k/month.
So the U.S. arms industry is completely broken and in even worse state or the whole theme of the article is just bullshit as usual? Pick one.
But why produce ammunition yourself, when you can force a whole country to do it. I take it with a grain of salt, but also I don‘t distrust the Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/