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after the USSR disappeared, there was a general view that war was no longer an important matter therefore Euro defense budgets were all gutted and many non-critical industries like small guns industries that couldn't really rely on the civvie market to survive didn't make the cut
this is the whole reason there is bad blood between the US and NATO right now, because the US is sick of telling fellow members to increase their defense spending so they don't have to rely on daddy America for everything and Trump in particular is emphasizing the issue
if you want a more glaring example look up how downscaled the Bundeswehr was between 1991 and today