A community for international relations; theory & news.
What is international relations?
Bois and girls, this is how you maintain control of Asia and the Middle East. Next step is to install our preferred government like we have done in the Arab countries. We can not trust them to pick a leader that would serve our interests in the region
🤮
Is this paving the way for them to start selling War bonds? As I understand it they are running out of ammunition already so they might need to consider some WW2 inspired manufacturing push as well.
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.