Europe still has arms factories. And the word is they are working non-stop. Open orders for, say, the IRIS-T SAM variant missile (components of that are made in Spain, they are busy), antitank rockets and manpads, and artillery ammo, the critical 152/155mm stuff, from factories in Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, etc.
Thats just part of whats ongoing. The Russians woke them up.
Meanwhile, Russia can’t manufacture what they need to replace the losses on the battlefield
Putin is reduced to war crimes to persist
“Europe still has arms factories.”
I admit speaking in hyperbolas, of course Europe has arms factories, the probably is that they are a tiny fraction of what’s needed to take over the world, or even take on the huge inventory that Russia possess, and even are unlikely to match current Russia’s production capability.
A good indicator as to how Europe viewed their military was when that German defense minister babe said something like: “I never thought we’d have to deal with a real war”
That can change but it take years and even longer when you have your defense industries converting to electric tanks, for example, while the Russians view their defense industries different.