Subject: Re: Brace for Impact...
This is your what you said:

They want to:
1. Reinvigorate the manufacturing base of the United States, especially with regards to in-shoring critical needs.

I point out you've made no rational moves that would do this and you respond.

DOPE: It hasn't played out yet. Glad you weren't around when the building of the Panama Canal was first taken up by the US.

You are just evading - the tariffs, as played by Trump, are just disruptive - the CHIPs act did something - you're just hoping something will fall out of the sky.


Uhhh, you're not saying anything.

No, you're just evading dealing with it.

Easy to understand - Obama made the pivot already.

ROTFLMAO.
Is that why this stat exists? "The United States is 1% of global shipbuilding"

Now this statement has nothing to do with what you were talking about before - which is that China is the enemy, not Russia.

U.S. President Barack Obama's East Asia Strategy (2009–2017), also known as the Pivot to Asia, represented a significant shift in the foreign policy of the United States since the 2010s. It shifted the country's focus away from the Middle Eastern and European sphere and allowed it to invest heavily and build relationships in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, especially countries which are in close proximity to the People's Republic of China (PRC) either economically, geographically or politically to counter its rise as a rival potential superpower.[1]

So Obama did the Asian Pivot - perhaps you had trouble following your argument.

And as for ships:

In many cases, American manufacturing woes are a story of dominance (or at least success) followed by decline and stagnation. But with shipbuilding the story is different: U.S. shipbuilders have struggled to compete in the commercial market since roughly the Civil War. Outside of a few narrow windows, the U.S. has never been a major force in international shipping. The situation we face today, with U.S. ships costing at least twice as much to build as ships built elsewhere, is not a recent development; it’s been the norm for at least the past 100 years.