The “Muh Free Market” pollute this site.
There is no free market outside of a textbook.
All other countries engage in protectionist practices.
People that value money above nation are trash.
“The “Muh Free Market” pollute this site.”
Sadly some of the Randists are slow to get this, but thankfully Rand at least gets the idea better than his father, Ron.
We tried the ‘free market’ crap regarding our military and now we find that ‘free market’ ideas are not necessarily a good idea when you also want to start World War 3 and fight ground wars on multiple fronts at the same time, as we’re learning the hard way.
After all, in a free market, why keep large factories and work forces around for small production runs of military hardware. In a ‘free market’ why stockpile raw materials and piece-parts of critical items when they won’t be used for decades?
The answer for both, is that you DO NOT KNOW when you might need them, something Russia fully understood.
But for the US, our MBA, DEI, Woke, and Drag-Queen INFESTED ‘experts’ could not get past their Japanese-style Just-in-Time crap and now our military production capability is CRIPPLED.
Great time to go to war, ehhh?