Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 09, 2024, 08:50 PMWar is going to be a hard sell when store shelves are empty. War sells when there is a chance for, something, not nothing. The Democratic Party support of Israel and Ukraine could cook their goose in the next election. War has not been giving the returns it used to.
WWII came on the heels of the Great Depression. Then during the war, rationing was accepted as being part of the war effort.
Granted, the situation today is not the same and exactly how events will play out is impossible to predict. A big difference is the possibility bombs would drop on FSoA soil. Also, while shipping was disrupted in WWII, convoys still did get through. In this age of hypersonic cruise missiles and ICBMs, it's hard to imagine how any ships will stay above the waterline at all. So even if there is international war, it wouldn't last very long.
In the end, it doesn't much matter since international war will be impossible to keep going long. Manufacturing high tech jets with computer chips on a production line is not gonna happen. The cool hardware will all go down early on, fuel and munitions will run short and of course social breakdown at home. At that point, all anyone will care about is where the next meal will come from.
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