“Of course, after Dec 7th of the same year, we went on a crash course to make stuff. To today’s democrats, we did it before, we can do it again—until we can’t.”
...and we can’t, since we’ve OUTSOURCED much of our defense production base (low-level items such as electronic components, rare-earths, and raw materials) - much of it to Russia and China, so they won’t be in much of a hurry to help us. Wasn’t the case in previous wars.
Incorrect. We could but look who holds power in America: The woke, the anti-human ecologists and climate hysterical, and all the stupid and indoctrinated followers (thank you, USA Schools) who believe them.
But the USA could mine rare earths and trade with friendly countries for what we need, which is actually very little. The factories could be fired up again, or even built. My point was, we spend vast amounts of fake money on all kinds of tom-foolery, why not spent fake money on real material goods our country actually needs, while putting people to work? And every other generation we have to go on a crash course level to remake fighting equipment and train new fighting men because we neglected it.
Hell, it is a rhetorical question anyway, we know the answer...