Yes, those jobs are never returning. Manufacturing will increasingly be automated, or the world will crash in some highly unfortunate way that we'd all be (un?

Yes, those jobs are never returning. Manufacturing will increasingly be automated, or the world will crash in some highly unfortunate way that we'd all be (un?)lucky to survive. Production of critical parts within allied or the same nation is a reasonable goal. It's probably also more energy efficient to manufacture things closer and ship less.