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Europe is re-arming at a pace not seen since the Cold War, but the reality is more complex than the headlines suggest. Germany has enshrined defense spending above 2% of GDP in its constitution, Poland is building Europe's largest land army, and the EU is quietly creating a collective defense procurement pipeline through workarounds like the European Peace Facility. Yet fragmentation remains the defining feature of European defense—27 different procurement processes, incompatible ammunition standards, and stalled Franco-German joint projects. Hosts break down the numbers, the hardware, and the political dynamics driving this historic shift.