The basic principle that you have missed is that when the basic need arises, it is too late.
One other item that you need to understand; with today’s manufacturing infrastructure and capacity we would lose world war two.
There are some other things you should know. Can you handle the truth
I know, forewarned is forearmed, and zer0bama ruinated our manufacturing base to favor china, and skated away laughing while he counted his bribe money.
“One other item that you need to understand; with today’s manufacturing infrastructure and capacity we would lose World War Two”
Food, clothing, and shelter are essential for human life. For modern life add low cost reliable energy, computer technology, and basic skills (reading, wiring, arithmetic) including the ability to objectively assess fact to arrive at objective, reason conclusions. As the US demonstrated in WWII, a strategic advantage in war is having self sufficiency in supplying the basic needs for its entire population.
We no longer have self sufficiency nor could we regain it quickly in a time of crisis. Our supply chains to produce food, clothing and shelter are no longer contained within our borders and can quickly be severed physically or electronically by an external enemy.
Our education system has failed and is continuing to decline turning out millions of students who are functionally illiterate and incapable of reasoning. The textile and apparel industry is essentially gone. We cannot clothe the people of this country. While we still have the potential to be self sufficient in food within our borders, many of the systems and supply chains supporting the growing of food and transportation of food are highly dependent on imports of components and products no longer produced here. The same applies to shelter. More and more building materials, applliances and systems used to construct and furnish buildings are produced outside our borders.
Energy independence, recently achieved is being abandoned by the new administration. The computerized systems, and components, and technologies required to support 21st century supply chains are largely produced outside the US. Today our domestic auto plants are being shut down due to supply chain shortages of electronic parts produced offshore.
If China today embargoed the US, the way we have embargoed other nations, we would be on our knees in less than a year. Does anyone think Joe Biden, and his behind the scenes handlers, would engage in a shooting war with China if:
1) China invades Taiwan
2). China embargoes shipments of critical high tech components
3). China completely shuts off all exports to the US
4). China engages in a covert attack on the civilian population of the US with a biological agent
5). China replaces the dollar as the reserve currency and demands payment in yuan for our debt.
6). In a contrived incident, China sinks a US carrier operating near its shore.
7) Through its proxy North Korea, an EMP attack is made on the US destroying the electrical grid and condemning most of the population to death through starvation, disease and anarchy.
Our nation is more vulnerable to destruction from within and without than at any time in its history. Sadly, our leaders do not care nor will they take action before it is too late.
In 1942 and 1943 we launched 151 aircraft carriers.
Now, it takes nine years to build a single one.