International Relations

If they need to, they can send America's Wizards and America's Bards to balance out the party.

But as for acquiring and building and upgrading factories, and training an industrial labor army gratis, all entirely at state expense, the way it was done for WWII: no way. This time there is neither the highly organized and terrifying labor movement that existed back then to placate, nor a capitalist class and regulatory environment capable of long-term investment. This crop of failchildren would rather follow their status quo down the drain than risk anything so progressive as a jobs program.