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Is the US plan to bring back manufacturing to them a war preparation? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I can't really see any other reason why they would do such a radical move. Does the Trump clique plan a war with China in the near future? Do you think a third world war is imminent?

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[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Short answer: Yes

Obama's and Biden's sanctions, along with Trump's tariffs, have split the world into economic camps with opposing interests. This is a prelude to a world war, whether it is hot or cold.

American policy has always been to smash anyone who can potentially grow to threaten their hegemony. After the fall of the USSR, their aim remained to keep dismantling Russia. Furthermore, they used the export of capital to China as a way to keep China away from the USSR. With the fall of the USSR, this was no longer necessary, and plans started being drawn about eliminating Chinese communism.

However, after 2001, the US got distracted by their wars in the Middle and Near East, which lasted a lot longer than expected, and exhausted their military industrial capacity more than it should.

Their arrogance had them think that they could force Russia to suffer a similar exhaustion by provoking a war in Ukraine. They found out that they miscalculated, as Russia fought the war in a way that Americans would never think of. No mass indiscriminate bombing of cities and civilian infrastructure, slow positional warfare instead of aggresive large maneuvers, retreat away from potential defeat to preserve lives, etc. Meanwhile Russia's centralized military economy has shown to be a lot more efficient, a lot more productive and a lot more cheaper, than the American model.

The Americans realized that Russia's existing industries and focus on raw material extraction allows them to punch well above their weight. At the same time, Americans (and Europeans) are finding out that stock trading and bank services may have produced a lot of wealth for them, but they are absolutely useless in producing tanks, rockets and jets, or even in protecting their population from disastrous economic blockades.

So yes, Trump's (urgent) aim is to rebuild industry in the US, so the US is able to rebuild its military, so the US can threaten Russia and China to bow down and stop challenging US hegemony, which is most likely going to lead to WW3.

Even if Trump fails, we might see a WW3. This is precisely why BRICS are letting the Americans down slowly and softly. Avoiding sudden moves can prevent the US from reacting militarily.