And Europe wants to Rearm. That costs money, where's the money coming from.
Oh, Money isn't real, but someone somewhere has to dig the metals, synth the chemicals to make the boobs.
Here's the stupid part, they just assume all their usual sources will sell them these precursors to weapons.
Case in point, why is the French so mad at Rv5ia of late, it's because Rv5ia began to support the liberation of French colonialist mining in Africa, uran1vm, such and such.
France realistically, has 3 days worth of Artillery. They'd get rolled after 3 days.
The most credible sources indicate Rv5 has approximately 75% of munition stockpiles remaining.
But Tp4, what's with they is buy Nort coria shells, reliable sources say that's because they don't need the good shells they make for what is currently a successfully completed campaign.