Well, it didn’t exactly help that something like half of the most significant nuclear physicists of the era were, uh… yknow… disinvited from the country.

Was the Soviet Union a victim when Germany attacked them?

…Really? That’s the comparison you’re gonna go with?

Hell, even if you don’t. Gaddafi made a big show of “giving up” weapons that he didn’t even really have, and he still got raped to death with a bayonet.

I’d wager (heh) Tooze is familiar with armament production. Germany still built something like 4k Leo 2s. Add to that about 1k of Leclercs, half that of Challengers, some Ariettes, and a bunch of other crap, there’s room for an economy of scale, it’s just not being used. And frankly, EU armies buying M1s isn’t helping. In addition, you can put the proposition backwards, and say high unit costs are a sign of too few of them being built.

I’m wondering if he’s maybe comparing older models. An M1A2 can come from anywhere between early nineties and today - L2A8s are brand spanking new. But even then, the PzH 2000 being six times more expensive then the K9 is just insane.

Well, now that you bring it up…

If you want that, just light up the first and last LED always.

I mean, technically, illegal occupation is in and of itself a warcrime, so there’s that?

Abolitionist, more like.

Something something “decays into fascism”…

It’s like they all have to try it, personally, to figure out it doesn’t work.