BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday (Mar 2) to ramp up Germany's armaments manufacturing industry, after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) warned that Ukraine was currently using up more ammunition than allies were producing. Scholz said he was in talks with the armaments industry to incr
BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday to ramp up Germany's armaments manufacturing industry, after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation warned that Ukraine was currently using up more ammunition than allies were producing.
That way, he said,"Germany would create an industrial base that would contribute towards securing peace and freedom in Europe". Until Russia's invasion of Ukraine, post-World War II Germany had pursued a pacifist path that has for decades led to under-investment in its military. Most recently, Scholz agreed to allow German-made Leopard battle tanks to be sent to Ukraine, significantly ramping up Berlin's military commitments to Kyiv.
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