Maybe they want to privatize it. Like a private company building and controlling drones for them. Outsourcing drone warfare to corporations and AI, as well as vassal states.

NATO 3.0 also plans to privatize national defense industries in Europe and separate components by country. Complete insanity unless you think about it in terms of corporate hegemony. The technofascists around Thiel that got Trump into office a second time.

They don't really take war seriously. Neither the US nor EU. They think it's just a game and believe themselves to be invulnerable. War is what happens elsewhere. The reality is impossible to accept. Iran basically kicked the US out of their region and forced them to retreat precisely because of the overwhelming cheap drone warfare they were able to launch, because their defense industry is state owned.

Of course diplomacy and mutual respect for security needs would be far better to avoid war. Cdre. Steve Jermy (video) calls it diplomatic incompetency. They also talk about the new nature of air warfare and that we currently have no defense against it.

The Spirt of Westphalia: - by Steve Jermy

Western Air Defence – as I set out in ‘Principles & Practice of Air Defence’[4], Ukraine’s skies cannot be defended by the West. Nor is this situation likely to improve in the next five years. But not only is Ukraine undefendable from the air, so too is Europe. Which should worry Europeans, when we have the E3 providing to Ukraine heavier missiles and drones that can strike deep into Russia. As I explained in ‘The Coming War with Russia’, were Russia to retaliate against E3 weapons manufacturers, not only would Britain, France and Germany be unable to defend against such retaliation, but nor could any other European state, as the US’s current setbacks in Iran unequivocally demonstrate. In the face of any Russia retaliation, the much-vaunted NATO Article 5 guarantee would be useless.