I am not saying it won't happen, but I think it's a couple of years off. Way sooner if China and NK go after SK and we're forced into World War III. They will be rationing shit here wholesale. Now we can produce everything we need here and there will have to be a massive cost of living adjustment (going down) so everything is affordable if the US and the EU cut themselves off from the rest of the world.
Im not sure we can produce everything we need here anymore. We have the raw materials but the mind and spirit are whats lacking. To spin up industry will take 10-20 years maybe longer. A lot of stuff has to be rebuilt and a lot of knowledge was lost and processed materials will be hard to find. The problem is the shortage will kill you now. It wont wait for 20 years while you rebuild.
Good point. I read somewhere once that it would take 10 years to ramp up to World War II production levels, and that was in a purely ideal setting. Back in the 40s we did it two years because the infrastructure existed and it was repurposed. We'd have to build that infrastructure that is now all in China and Mexico. Which is why I laugh my ass off everytime I hear Comrade Psaki or that faggot Jake Sullivan threatening China because sanctions aren't happening there. They aren't going to risk Walmart shutting down, GM going under because 3/4rds of their cars are made overseas, same with Ford. Not to mention spare parts, electronics, computers, etc. You think Biden will crash Apple's stock because they make all their shit in China? I think sanctioning China would destroy a 1/4 of the global wealth overnight.
EDIT: The US needs China. China DOES NOT need the US.
Right and i think China is getting ready to put the knife in our back and stop selling to us. The death of SWIFT is the canary in this case. Trading directly with east Asian countries and Russia who are all producers. They don't need American dollars because we don't have anything worth selling to them that they don't already make every sub component of or indeed the whole finished product. They don't need Nike to sell them back the shoes they are making in one of their factories and they don't need transfag idea men to tell them what products to make.
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