Yep, true. And at the same time, outsourcing has done so much damage to their manufacturing industry that to save it, several costly interventions would be needed - while they are instead betting all financial injections on AI.

Goated strat from the world’s most enthusiastic cokeheads.

Exactly - Trump’s big missing link is a cohesive industrial policy, so how long does it take him to directly welcome hitlerite ambitions and attempt to create some sort of centralised amalgamation of capital interests under the (inevitable) umbrella of mass militarisation? I mean, the MIC is already there…