• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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              2 months ago

              Which takes a lot of time and money and manpower. It also requires people who understand how to manufacture those things.

              Don’t pretend this would be either easy or doable within any sort of short timeframe.

              • ravhall@discuss.online
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                2 months ago

                It has to start somewhere 
                It has to start sometime 
                What better place than here? 
                What better time than now?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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                  2 months ago

                  It has been started. It is happening. But it will take a very, very long time before the West will be able to rely on themselves and not China for important manufacturing.

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                    2 months ago

                    It has not been started in any serious way. There is basically no incentive to manufacture most goods in the US.

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                    2 months ago

                    I don’t recall hearing anything recently about a push to manufacture inside the states. Just a lot of pushing to places like India.

      • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I like how people are like ‘just build factories here’ as if many of the raw materials for those factories arent also from China, or processed in China.

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        2 months ago

        This will force the hand of US and EU to sanction China one way or another. Of course diplomatic solutions can be worked out. What it will be has yet to be seen. As you’re aware, China has tried to avoid supplying arms directly to Russia until this move. It maybe that Chinese will manufacture the drones in Russia to avoid being seen as exporting arms.