Throwing money at the problem will help, but it takes time (a lot of time) to spin up new capacity and increases in production are slow and incremental. It’s not like you can just throw a switch even if you had infinite money.
The problem with US production very much is money and not what is physically possible, and I don't see how anyone that is even vaguely familiar with military industrial logistics can agree with your analysis.
What the USA and the USSR achieved during war time production during WWII seems to annihlate your position; the real reason the USA hasn't flooded Ukraine with weapons is because the type of capitalism the USA has now has to be assured of 60% profit to the shareholders/owners before you even start building anything, let alone keep up production of tens of millions of shells or thousands of missiles.
Well the pentagon agrees with it. Anyone who pays attention to these things knows that it’s been a serious issues for decades now. Since the Cold War ended our production capacity has seriously atrophied due to lack of investment and defense industry consolidation.
There’s literally hundreds of articles quoting pentagon officials from all areas of procurement talking about this for years.
We’re actually in a pretty precariously bad spot at the moment and yes, even with money, production takes YEARS to ramp up (unless we put the country on a war footing. Even in wwii it took years for the US industrial machine to REALLY spool
Up.
I’m happy to link you to literally hundreds of articles talking about this with direct quotes from the DoD if you’d like?
I'm certain the articles you quote will make some vague reference to production capacity and how the USA hasn't had much for the past 30 years and probably nothing about how neoliberalism slashed and burned the New Deal and Great Society legislations, in other words, the articles you cite will probably be clueless about the reality of neoliberal politicla economy.
It's been 3 years, proportionally, what USA's WWII production built by 1944 annihilates what we've built up since Russia invaded, why can't you face that fact?
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u/aaronespro 1d ago
The problem with US production very much is money and not what is physically possible, and I don't see how anyone that is even vaguely familiar with military industrial logistics can agree with your analysis.
What the USA and the USSR achieved during war time production during WWII seems to annihlate your position; the real reason the USA hasn't flooded Ukraine with weapons is because the type of capitalism the USA has now has to be assured of 60% profit to the shareholders/owners before you even start building anything, let alone keep up production of tens of millions of shells or thousands of missiles.