FDR and his military chiefs planned for a gigantic world war with prospective production programs which no other nation on earth could match. They were all guessing how much would be needed.
The baboons in power now seem incapable of planning. They seem incapable of designing a realistic national strategy. They flit from one hot point to another. We could not even manage to successfully aid Ukraine. Like Afghanistan, we seem to have dumped them, and "moved on." Moving on, and leaving wrack and ruin behind seems to be all we can do.
If one were to compare the minds of the today's mutton heads at the top, and those who might replace them, to the brilliant planning of Roosevelt's war lords of 1940-1945, the I.Q. contest would be an embarrassment. You can't run an empire with blithering idiots, and blithering idiots are what we have, and what we elect over and over again.
We are like Spain at the time of the Armada. Rich but with rotten leadership. We are like Russia in 1904, a colossus ripe to be whipped by a smaller nation, which can organize to win a war. Look at the top to bottom corruption revealed in the USN in the Pacific, add to this the revelation that the fleet is too overstretched to train to manage routine navigation amidst other ships.
We would rather quarrel than build alliances among the political factions. All misery we experience is self-inflicted.
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