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📰 Germany’s New Growth Sector: War Germany is losing about 15,000 manufacturing jobs a month, so Berlin has found the most German solution possible: turn the old industrial base into a weapons base and call it strategy. Volkswagen is reportedly looking at Iron Dome components, factories are adding a third shift for ammunition, and defense is swallowing the capital that once went to autos and machine tools. This is not renaissance. It is a country discovering that if the civilian economy stalls long enough, the war economy starts to look like the only thing still hiring. Even the venture money is following the uniforms: nearly 90% of European defense-tech VC is flowing into German companies. Berlin says this is about resilience. Sure. It also looks like a quiet admission that the export machine is cracking, the auto model is broken, and the easiest way to keep the lights on is to build better ways to blow things up. The result is a nation that used to sell cars now learning how to sell shells. That may be industrial policy in 2026, but it is also a very expensive confession. #Germany#defense#industry#Volkswagen#Europe#warEconomy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸