re: Deindustrialization - Have We Become a Poor Country?

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If that was true we would have defeated Russia in Ukraine.

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We're not fighting Russia in Ukraine. If we did, it would have been with airplanes, not mortar shells.

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Rebuilding, for example, our shipbuilding capacity would take 15 to 20 years.

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Why would we need to do that?

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This isn’t the 1940s where we could retool existing plants for wartime production, critically, we also don’t have the trained workforce for it either.

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This also isn't the 1940s where international labor was difficult to obtain and transport to the US...or pay.

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If Ukraine is so important, if winning is so vital, and retooling our economy is so easy, then why didn’t we do that?

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We haven't spent nearly what you imagine we did in Ukraine, big picture.

The risk is Russia starting WW3. It's not military or industrial capability.

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Are we choosing to actively sabotage Ukraine then?

Why do we want Ukraine to lose?

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What? This is pretty low-level clever.