L’Europa costruisce per la guerra mentre le fabbriche di armi si espandono a velocità tripla

Europe’s weapons factories are expanding at three times the rate of peacetime, stretching over 7mn sq metres of new industrial development that represents rearmament on a historic scale. Building activity at European arms sites has gone into overdrive since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to a Financial Times analysis of radar satellite data covering 150 facilities across 37 companies. The data shows that Europe’s long-promised defence revival, driven by an injection of public subsidies, is beginning to materialise not just in policy rhetoric or spending pledges but also in concrete and steel. It comes as EU governments argue over how to sustain arms deliveries to Kyiv, as well as rebuilding their own stockpiles, in the face of a potentially wavering US commitment. Using more than 1,000 radar satellite passes, the FT tracked changes at sites associated with ammunition and missile production, two bottlenecks in the west’s support for Ukraine. The Sentinel-1 satellites, operated by the European Space Agency, fire radar pulses and record their echoes — known as “backscatter” — that can reveal surface alterations. The data suggests about a third of the sites reviewed showed signs of expansion or construction work. The scale and spread of the detected work suggests a generational shift in rearmament, moving Europe from just-in-time peacetime production towards building an industrial base for a more sustained war footing. William Alberque, a senior adjunct fellow at the Asia Pacific Forum and former director of Nato arms control, said: “These are deep and structural changes that will transform the defence industry in the medium to long term. “Once you’re mass-producing shells, the metals and explosives start flowing, which drops the cost and complexity of missile production.” Most defence groups declined to comment on the findings, citing security concerns.

The analysis examined 88 sites linked to an EU programme, Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP), which has invested €500mn to tackle specific bottlenecks in the production of ammunition and missiles. Both the Rheinmetall and Roxel sites were supported by ASAP. A clear physical expansion is visible at 20 sites with ASAP funding, including the construction of entirely new factories and roads. At 14 sites, small expansions are visible, such as new car parks being built. The remaining sites either did not expand or were office and research buildings.

(Its happening)

Too bad this is needed, but Tsar Vladimir I did this himself.

MORE EMISSIONS YAY! WW3 does not matter at this time anymore, in just a couple of decades this planet is not livable anymore because of the climate collapse. As we do not react to it, let’s just kill ourselves by ourselves before that.

Not fast enough.

more more more!

Reading this. I think of an old Ronald Reagan speech. Yes Reagan . And this time it’s relevant for Europe. https://youtu.be/2pbp0hur9RU?feature=shared

Good time to buy Rheinmetall. They’re cheap right now.

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

― Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket

Napoleon and Schicklgruber approve of this. Drang nach Osten again, eh. Does Europe have 27 million people to die in a new world war?