They usually compare it to cars of a similar size, instead of similar price. and yeah, when you're buying a car of the same size that's 5k cheaper, you're getting less car.
Your larynx isn't really a limb... But nah, its an evolutionary artefact. In primordial fish it's a straight line, but then the head moves, a neck forms, etc etc. and the nerve can't detach and move over, so it gets longer wnd weirder.
Oil is Russia number 1 export. There's a LOT of oil infrastructure.
And while they may be Russians, the vast majority of oil infrastructure is metal pipes and tubes, and big metal barrels. You can repair most of it with metal plates and welders, and Russians are pretty famous for bodging shitty equipment back into life. Not the important bits, but the important expensive bits are also easier to defend.
See, the way counting works, is that you count to 1 first, and then go on to count to 10.
But in a slightly less dickish answer, Europe is fundamentally at peace. We're doing peacetime production, meaning that companies will only produce what they can sell at a profit until they at the very least recoup the investment. If the EU starts making 1.5m shells per month, nobody will buy them. Companies being companies, they will maximize profit, meaning they only really want to build efficiently.
Russia is fundamentally at war. They will buy every single shell anyone can produce. Screw profit, screw efficiency. If you're hand-lathing 7 casings per year in your garden shed, they'll take em. Volume is more important than cost or efficiency. Retooling existing factories, putting up old, inefficiënt and unprofitable factories is a great idea if all you want is more at whatever cost.
But if/when Europe goes to war, the same will happen. BMW will start making military trucks, Corus will be making shells and armor, Lego starts making claymores etc etc. But we're not doing that right now, because economics doesn't work like that.
Thats how all colours work though.
Edit: and as I post that, and edit this, I'm realizing more and more that isn't remotely true.
It's how many colours work.