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Grayling813 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:41 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 3:52 pm I’ve said it before,and I’ll say it again… It is highly likely that if we get into a war with a near-peer opponent in the not too distant future, we’re going to have our butts handed to us.

We hardly have an industrial base any more. Our public "education" centers are turning out illiterate heads full of mush, most of whom are too involved in the bright screen held in their hand to notice or care about the state of the country or look beyond what the screen tells them is the truth.

Our government's fascination with empire building is going to crash and burn.

One of the primary reasons (though admittedly not the only one) that we have little-to-no real heavy manufacturing anymore is the EPA/"Green" movement. It went from cleaning up excessive pollution to making it too expensive to even operate a factory, in a relatively short amount of time. NO ONE likes foul air or contaminated water, sure, but look at the stunts they are pulling these days. They'd get rid of all cattle ranching (except for enough to supply the elites with steaks) to "save the planet" from cow flatulence. We haven't added refining capacity, either, due to EPA permitting schemes. I have little doubt it was all by design, either.