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TheShadow8909 t1_iy2tuc5 wrote

Build more weapons then - like the good old times - be the "arsenal of democracy"

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[deleted] t1_iy32wb5 wrote

It's not a switch you can just turn on and off. There's no doubt the USA in particular and the West in general are scaling up production of military hardware, but they don't want supply to far outstrip demand. They'll aim to only barely produce more than is demanded.

The world isn't bipolar like it was during the First Cold War. China wasn't a real threat back then. Not like today. Now, anything the West does to counter Russia, needs to also take into account the possibility that it might leave the West too economically overextended to properly react to sudden unexpected moves from China.

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Professional-Bee-190 t1_iy3p6gw wrote

>It's not a switch you can just turn on and off.

Well, the war started in February of 2022 so... Not like increasing some amount of production by now is some kind of insurmountable task.

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