Burnwinter I'm not sure I'd equate those questions but if the question is should Europe ramp up arms production then clearly the answer should be no? The only enemy that could overwhelm Europe is the US and they're not bridging that gap any time soon nor should we.
Infrastructure decaying, economic standards dropping across the board, democracy failing with far right parties on the rise literally everywhere - but yea let's sink what little money is left to governments under self imposed austerity programmes in the black hole that's defence spending lol