good, maybe we won’t be stupid enough to provoke one then.
What? Of course USA will do everything it can to provoke China to go to war. Just look at what’s happening in the Philippines. When Duerte was president everything was fine and there was peace in the area. Now that US puppet Marcos Jr is there, suddenly they need to build 4 MORE US military bases there. Now suddenly there’s all sorts of collisions and arguments. Hmm…
Historically it’s chickened out of direct confrontation with the USSR and Iran
the U.S. industrial base being in China does seem like an obstacle yeah
The idea that the US could even hope to “resolve key challenges” here is laughable. China is too far ahead in manufacturing and companies aren’t willing to spend the massive amounts of money required to expand manufacturing in the US.
Yeah, this is delusional beyond belief. Most people don’t realize just how dependent on China US is today. For example:
https://edconway.substack.com/p/globalisation-is-a-far-far-bigger
Posting numbers from 2018 is an insufficient insight into the situation though as there has been reported increased decoupling following covid.
US industrial output is currently shrinking, the decoupling is just talk with no substance to it
You’d need to build new facilities and train people up to run lathes and whatnot. On top of that weapons aren’t made with steel and wood anymore so you’ll need to teach them some light programming too in order to mill your M4 receivers. In short America is fucked because free training in a high skill job is sacrilege here.
During the first COVID supply crisis after China shut down, I remember:
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A door factory shutting down because they couldn’t domestically source the parts for doors
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Freight truck factories shutting down production because they couldn’t domestically source some small metal part
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Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance, warning they were one natural disaster away from the electrical grid collapsing
Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance
Still an issue, I work for a utility and lead times for things like high voltage transformers are still ~18 months or so from what I’ve been told
Coincidentally, I also processed a shipment of smaller transformers that came thru from South Korea (which for us was unheard of)
It’s not ideal
so what youre telling me is that if a group of organized people wanted, they could take out the entire us electrical grid by blowing up a bunch of transformers?
HUH
Attack on Nine Substations Could Take Down U.S. Grid (2014)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/attack-on-nine-substations-could-take-down-us-grid
Capitalism builds industry for war.
Socialism builds industry for human needs.
Simple as.
Except not even - if that was the case then ukraine would be winning instead of getting rinsed.
