> You couldn't have convinced me earlier Germany would be the ones dragging their feet and France would unambiguously flex muscle, but here we are. This is a v

> You couldn't have convinced me earlier Germany would be the ones dragging their feet and France would unambiguously flex muscle, but here we are. This is a very Polish bias :) For the last 30 years France might as well not exist as far as Polish politicians and analysts go. It's bizzare. There's more on TV about irrelevant countries like Hungary or Israel than about France, and when somebody speaks about France it's almost always the most trivial stereotypes. Half the time is cloned conservative propaganda from USA, the other half - from Russia... As for Baltics - they are doing a good job with what they have, but it's not enough. > the only thing that will counter Russia's ability to whip a mobilization economy faster is collective sustainable local production done right That's false. If west sent all the weapons it sent to Ukraine, but did it in the first 3 months - war would be over by now. It is still possible to finish the war quickly or slowly. Each month of delay is prolonging this war nonlinearly (by more than a month).