In the Tariff negotiations, South Korea committed to $150 billion to American Shipyard infrastructure development and expansion, including workforce. That is a huge component of our industry we must restore. And it will allow us to build a workforce to use in an additional shipyard when we build it.
Another reason I appreciate and support President Trump in his implementation of tariffs to level the playing field.
I once was a bad ass. But every country has young men wanting to be bad asses and willing to die for their country.
What made us the bad asses as a country, wasn't young men willing to die. In the words of Patton:
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_s_patton_102496
It was out manufacturing, industry and technology.
We beat our enemies into the ground with “stuff.”
It's our ability to invent an A-bomb, build B29 bombers (the most capable and probably advanced bomber of WWII), go from blue print to full scale production of a P51 (one of the best fighters of the war) in 6 months, supply our troops across an ocean better than an enemy just 200 km from their industrial heart (Ruhr), break their Enigma, but come up with our own that's better and doesn't get broken...
It's our ability to invent, to come up with technical solutions to problems, and mass produce like no one else that just makes us pummel our enemy into submission: https://youtu.be/F7LgWZzel-Y?si=xLxb_e9rSy4B7YGC
Lose the tech and manufacturing advantage, and we're just highly motivated kids willing to die for our country.