I always found American contempt to Europe exaggerated. Here you see the US Secretary for Army John McHugh visiting the Watervliet Arsenal in 2013. Behind him, there is a single machine that is forging 100% of large caliber cannons in the US

The bottleneck of a bottleneck

GFM https://t.co/3DdxugvSrq pic.twitter.com/NCiN9CILkd

— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) November 5, 2023