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BRUSSELS — United States arms-makers are being frozen out of the European Union’s massive new defense spending plan, which aims to splash the cash for EU and allied countries, according to defense spending plans released Wednesday.
Also left out — for now — is the United Kingdom.
The same was true for Nazi Germany. They didn’t have the oil to run a war or many of the other resources, and they only had such amazing military success because every other nations was slow in rearming after the peace of the previous war. That and appeasement.
Slow in rearming? France had an army absolutely equal to Germany. Look at the stats: battle of France. The point is that Germany saw a shift in technology and what that meant for warfare and were faster with that. The same way drones are now the mayor thing and help Ukraine defend itself.
And France didn’t think to extend the Maginot line
This is false, or at least myopic. They wanted to force the Germans into the Benelux, it was part of the plan, because no one foresaw the German breakthrough, not even the Germans.
You can say they would have been better off with an extended line, and that’s true, but you could also say they should have had better tanks, more motorized infantry, or a larger air force instead of planning for WW1: 2 again and that would also be true.
You can also say the Dutch shouldn’t have been so easy to conquer, with fortifications or their own.