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With select exceptions(defense, mainly), disruptions of the kind you're describing are best handled with multilateralism.
by knownjorbist 5y ago
With select exceptions(defense, mainly), disruptions of the kind you're describing are best handled with multilateralism.
- systemvoltage 5y agoDefinitely defense, if you study history - how bacon grease was collected from homes to make lubricant for cartridges during WWII; making pins and buttons for clothes was turned into component manufacturing for airplanes almost overnight. Within a few days, people worked to convert equipment, draft new mechanisms, turn them at the machine shop, fixer-upper some machines - converted the entire enterprise into making shaft pins and washers. There were countless examples of how quickly manufacturing of A was converted to manufacturing of B. Ken Burns documentary goes much deeper into this and I find it totally fascinating. Chinese populace has an insane level of "jerry-rigging" capability because of how they bring costs down. This is a huge advantage in war manufacturing theater. This is now questionable as Americans (and Europeans alike) are constantly in consumption mode.