Are we now defenseless if Megatron attacks?
Posted on 08/03/2025 6:34:56 PM PDT by delta7
At the rate of the last few days, in a couple months Russia would not have any distillation towers (except maybe for vodka).
Modern societies have a lot of critical underpinnings...
Easy breezy, let’s get crackin’
How’s that global supply chain thing workin’ out?
Not if the raw materials such as rare earths are not available. Why would China want to sell them to us anyway, we are planning to go to war with them and they don’t want to sell us the rope to hang themselves. We need those materials for EVERYTHING.
All I know is that we needed a shakeup, and we are sure getting one, and across the board.
What will be seen as great successes, and what will be seen as blunders or things that didn’t pan out, or worse, things that are discovered to be unchangeable by anyone, I don’t know, but change we will have.
Could an EV production line be used? There might be a couple of those laying around.
Build em here.
Done
Which makes the whole approach of imposing tariffs that change on a weekly — or even hourly — basis so ludicrous.
I laughed but that’s a good question...
That is negotiating tactic by Trump. It has worked brilliantly. EU would have never agreed to the deal we got without Trump imposing much higher tariffs initially.
Every deal signed so far favors United States. Soon it will be China squeezed into surrendering a good deal for USA. That 135% tariff threat currently must be making Xi sweat in his pants. My guess is India will not capitulate. India is 5 times more people than USA, and they have enough internal markets to not depend on exports like China does.
“...That’s why they want to phase out natural gas heating and appliances.”
That’s not why they want to phase out natural gas.
Are we now defenseless if Megatron attacks?
Sounds like there were plenty of transformers until the Autopen/Harris team staged a successful coup.
That’s why China has been investing and building infrastructure in the Global south. They are increasing their exports down there by building up those economies. They can get by without us. They were not and are not stupid like us.
Slave labor is cheaper than paid labor.
“Unintended consequences….”
Who knows if it’s unintended with the Globalists running the country. But yeah, sure be nice if we could BUILD THINGS again. By the way, if the Neocons get their way and start WW3, we’ll likely find ourselves without power for a few decades, due to not having any replacement transformers laying around after we’re EMP’d.
“WTF?? How did our brilliant leaders arrange it so that India and China would account for 80% of production of something as damned basic as transformers?”
Same as most of our industrial base - they were cheaper than LABOR UNIONS would allow American companies to build them.
“Critical infrastructure is what the tariffs are supposed to address.”
...but can tariffs CREATE critical infrastructure?
“Years and years of being bought off by wealthy executives who wanted to make these offshore for cheaper costs.”
Probably utilities simply buying what was cheapest...and so we didn’t have a chance, thanks to our labor unions.
“One expects that some enterprising United States Citizen engineers will soon begin a startup to develop a way to make extra high quality transformers (without worries over foreign-engineered hidden “issues”) quickly.”
Ask any big manufacturer what happens when they try to operate a plant and then labor ‘organizes’. They’ll tell you it’s not worth the effort, just buy from China.
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