Deutsche Welle turns Europe’s rearmament drive into a managerial story about procurement delays, hiding the political decision to reorganize public life around militarization. The factual record shows that NATO, the EU, Germany, and the arms monopolies are already moving vast public resources into the war economy, even as European “autonomy” remains chained to U.S. weapons capital. What appears as a technical problem is really imperialist recalibration: austerity for the people, abundance for the arsenal, and dependency disguised as sovereignty. Against this war economy, the task is to build organized resistance through anti-NATO campaigns, arms divestment, union struggle, social-budget defense, and international working-class solidarity.

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