You don't realise how third world the west has become until you start trying to do anything productive.
Literally all manufacturing of value has been outsourced years ago due to corporate cowardice and short term thinking.
It's difficult to rebuild even if we wanted to.
I literally can't take any military general seriously anymore in the west.
The real enemies are next to you in government.
The next war is going to be a manufacturing war, of who can produce the most drones, equipment and armaments.
The west will lose horribly.
Due to the regulatory environment and the lack of will in corporates to push back on leftist insanity, the two merged together to create a monster of unproductivity.
The manufacturing base has been completely eroded.
If a war ever happens, we will lose and it wont be close.
EVERYTHING is manufactured in China. I looked into trying to manufacture all sorts of stuff in the west. Impossible.
When Covid hit, we had to commandeer car factories who exist because of subsidies and who only assemble stuff to make ventilators.
We can't make anything.
And no, Trumps dumb little trade war didn't do anything. Everything is still made in china, it gets shipped to vietnam and then shipped from there.
Just a stupid label for politicians, the work is still done in china.
Additionally, the cultural rot from inactivity and lack of productivity will take imo atleast a generation to wash out.
Can you imagine all these arrogant leftist graduates, majoring in gender studies going and working in a plastics factory? Or a robotics factory? Or whatever.
China graduates 250,000 practical engineers a year. We compete with insane people, drug addicts and microaggressions.
We develop every year more bullshit psychological problems, while they develop factories, technologies and manufacturing prowess.
They will win the next war.
And it's not just america, my country NZ is run by addled retarded boomers too. Trying to run any type of manufacturing business here has massive challenges.
It's cheaper and safer to send NZ raw materials to china, re-organize the materials, and send it back here than locally.
Energy and power generation is a meme, the west has energy prices 10x that of China.
Our population culturally has completely degraded, but our infrastructure has degraded even further.
Nobody cares because we lost all those jobs decades ago.
All these fucking gay boomer generals think China is the threat. China is the shadow cast by cowards, retards and entitled brats running academic institutions who don't understand how the real world works.
Our industrial degradation is only matched by our cultural health.
"isn't that something" priming you for a negative experience, it's Irish slang, but for the intended audience, it's perfect.
"The absolute picture of weak and feeble" creates a frame of how he wants the audience to see his target, weak. With feeble being the emotional hook.
"The most divisive of all is the weak man" so once he's put his frame on the target, he's now moving the audience to him being divisive, knowing that's what is considered the worst thing for national leadership during a crisis.