[Tublecane]

“One now has to wonder why the liberal governmental policy post-WWII worked so feverishly to destroy that industrial capacity and leave the US so dependent on other nations and “outsourcing” that we can’t even build our own refueling planes but give the order to Airbus, and buy Eurocopters too. Never mind all the bogus computer chips from China that infect our military hardware”

This is inapt criticism. First of all, since when outside of countries planning on endless imminent wars has it been necessary to remain forever on a war footing? More importantly, how do you think it was pre-WWII? What were we, like a billionth in order of most mobilized nations? If we started basically from scratch in WWI and II, we are ever so much further along now.

Our problem isn’t whatsoever in the federal government not being capable of overtaking and directing national production. Quite the opposite, actually.

[Olog-hai]

We didn’t start from scratch in either world war. We had our industrial infrastructure in place.

Winston Churchill once said “The history of man is war.” The Founding Fathers knew that they would always have to be on a war footing ever since the exposure of our greatest weakness—having to rely on France, who could have turned on us just as quickly as they aided us. Alexander Hamilton didn’t write “Report on Manufactures” for no reason.

Now we are back to worse than before the War of Independence, and in a time where new big powers like China and Russia are rapidly putting themselves back on a war footing and Europe is seeking to unify all their disparate militaries into a single force. Not wise to be in such a position while the rest of the world is so feverishly making war preparations.

[Olog-hai]

We didn’t start from scratch in either world war. We had our industrial infrastructure in place.

Winston Churchill once said “The history of man is war.” The Founding Fathers knew that they would always have to be on a war footing ever since the exposure of our greatest weakness—having to rely on France, who could have turned on us just as quickly as they aided us. Alexander Hamilton didn’t write “Report on Manufactures” for no reason.

Now we are back to worse than before the War of Independence, and in a time where new big powers like China and Russia are rapidly putting themselves back on a war footing and Europe is seeking to unify all their disparate militaries into a single force. Not wise to be in such a position while the rest of the world is so feverishly making war preparations.