What is "Europe's Artillery Depends on Chinese Cotton" about?

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VIENNA—As European governments scrambled to replenish their arsenals, ammunition manufacturers found themselves worrying about something that most people would never associate with the military-industrial sector: The humble cotton fiber. We publish this newsletter every day at 9:05am NYC time / 4:05pm Kyiv.

Europe's Artillery Depends on Chinese Cotton

A mixture of capitalist profit maximization, green energy ideology, and short-sighted government decisions have allowed a single country—China—to acquire extraordinary influence over the energy infrastructure of a whole continent.