The United States today does not have the industrial infrastructure to fight WWII. Germany and Japan were defeated because U.S. manufacturing was quickly converted to war production. Today, the U.S. lacks the factories, and manufacturing skills to fight a protracted war. The proxy war against Russia in Ukraine highlights this vulnerability.
Ironically the politicians who have insisted on the U.S. projecting its military power globally over the past 30 years also supported the one sided “free trade” policies that gutted US manufacturing and the middle class. Ukraine is proving the loss of US manufacturing and supply chains is a major Achilles heel for our military capability.
How can the U.S. win a war against China over Taiwan or the Philippines without going nuclear.? We do not have the industrial capacity to project forces and fight a lengthy conventional war against an industrial nation the size of China, particularly when we are dependent on that nation’s factories for so many consumer and commercial manufactured goods. In a war situation China willl embargo the U.S. Within a few weeks the shelves in American chain stores will be empty of manufactured products which cannot be replaced. Clearly we can’t manufacture the ammunition, much less the high tech missiles, aircraft, tanks and ships fast enough to sustain conventional combat against the Chinese military and industrial base. Throw in a biological attack on the homeland and sustained cyberattacks against the homeland’s electrical grid, water systems, aircraft control and banking systems.
At the beginning of WWII the U.S. was self sufficient in agriculture, manufacturing and energy with excess manufacturing capacity to convert to war production. The population shared the same moral values, love of country, and willingness to fight for the American dream. Two large oceans were a formidable logistical barrier against invasion. Today we have none of these advantages.
Brother, you are singing my Song of Cassandra. Everything is NOT well with American might. The corruption is rife in every institution; public office, churches, courts, public office, law enforcement, media, industry...but the most insidious of these is the social engineering rot in our schools. It drives the alluvion of misery we are experiencing.
“Ironically the politicians who have insisted on the U.S. projecting its military power globally over the past 30 years also supported the one sided “free trade” policies that gutted US manufacturing and the middle class. “
Yup. !
The “Free Traders” and NeoCons are the same people. Foolish in everything they do.
None of them were intelligent enough to see the inconsistency between de-industrialization and endless globalist wars.
Maybe they thought the USA could continue to import from China even during a war.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/