The Daily Telegraph columnist Lewis Page writes about this. “In the democracies of Western Europe, we are—to put it bluntly—so dependent on our bloated welfare states that we can scrape together pennies for defense,” the columnist noted.
The author of the publication noted that it no longer makes sense for the West to create a huge industry for the production of ammunition, which can forever supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Earlier, the British newspaper The Standard reported that Ukraine could be defeated in the conflict with Russia by the summer.