It is not just civil defense.The population of the NATO member states imagined they were in a time without military enemies. That has changed. After 30 years of demilitarization of civilian life, a new Cold War era is beginning. NATO was never as weak as it was on February 24th, 2022, now it is being rearmed and civil defense is also being rebuilt.
There is currently no functioning civil defense, everything was dismantled. The officials are now going into the archives and looking at how things were organized before 1990.
I think that's a shame and didn't think it would be necessary again. I work in a civil authority, I'm on call today. This is new, it hasn't existed for 30 years.
All indrustry that depended on the cheap Russian energy and raw materials require insane ammount of investment.
And in the worst possible time, when every cheap labour country arond the world has serius doubts about the value of dollar and euro, means the rebuild of it can't came from the Chinese factories, but from the reorganised economy of Europe.
Long, high inflation time, with serious structural changes in fron of us in Europe/USA.
Russia could simply swap Europe to China.