[Right_Wing_Madman]

Rand reckons the GOP won't hold power for 60 years after this mess...

It's already a mess? Nice try, but the tariffs aren't even in effect yet.

One of the great lessons of the Ukraine War is that the United States needs to re-establish its industrial base, in favor of more overall production and less consumption. It's a matter of national survival.

Right now, if the US finds itself in a major war, the country would depend on Thailand and Vietnam to produce its ammunition and other stocks for that war.

It was easy to flip the switch in 1941 since the US was already an industrial giant.

[RandFan]

We’ll see*

*the mess I’m referring to is the roiled markets

[Angelino97]

One of the great lessons of the Ukraine War is that the United States needs to re-establish its industrial base, in favor of more overall production and less consumption.

That was also one of the lessons of Covid. Currently, much of our medical technology and drugs are manufactured overseas.

[Cobra64]

Yup.

[mass55th]

Great points. At the moment, this country is not equipped to produce the war machinery it would need to fight an all-out war to completion and victory. There are plenty of manufacturers today that would not want to participate in retooling their production lines to manufacture war material in the amount that would be needed. Henry Ford never got on line with moving from cars to war products until after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, despite FDR approaching him several times, and after we’d already been supplying Britain and France with war supplies for two years.