As its export model breaks down, Germany is pivoting from cars to cannons—and trying to turn industrial decline into a defense boom.
After decades as Europe’s manufacturing engine, the country is mired in its longest stretch of stagnation since World War II as it wrestles with competition from China and a slump in demand. The response is as stark as the crisis: recasting its industrial base as the West’s arsenal.
Across Germany’s industrial belt, factory lines that once powered the country’s export miracle are being rewired into the machinery of Europe’s rearmament.
The government is on board. Berlin’s approach isn’t to revive the old economy, but to replace it. Idle factory floors and a growing pool of laid-off skilled workers are being redirected into the only sector still expanding at scale.
And here we go towards WW3. It already begun, but now it is escalating.
Surely those are to kick out the americans occupying germany …right?
Ah shit, here we go again.
The “re” in reinventing caries a lot more meaning than the WSJ probably desired.
