That question being asked depends on which party was in charge when it started.
Labor is not an issue, plenty of people to be drafted. Debt slaves coerced into factory jobs. The real problem is industrial. Modern war is industrial. Do we have the factories to make what we need in the quantities we need? No. Can we make precursors like raw steel in the quantities that we need. Strategic minerals? Is our power secure? What about our transportation?
It’s okay, we don’t need the industrial side. We’ll just buy the stuff from China
Okay.
The costs of the war:
1. The bombs being used were already manufactured and paid for. Unless you are expecting an imminent war with Russia or China, they were just sitting around getting old. We already got rid of some old stock in Ukraine but we have plenty more. That’s why the 70 year-old B52’s are dropping our stockpile of dumb bombs.
2. The airplanes, ships, and troops already exist and are paid for (or in the case of the troops, already being paid).
The actual costs of the war are only the increases in pay for overseas/combat service, increased maintenance, and increased fuel costs, and of course, some equipment losses.
Of course, there will be future costs in replacing expended munitions and worn-out equipment, but in many cases those would have to be replaced anyhow because we can’t expect that the obsolete stuff we are expending now would be of use in the more sophisticated future.
Deaths, of course, are a separate matter but so far at least they are very few.
That was rhetorical, right?
BOHICA
That question being asked depends on which party was in charge when it started.
Labor is not an issue, plenty of people to be drafted. Debt slaves coerced into factory jobs. The real problem is industrial. Modern war is industrial. Do we have the factories to make what we need in the quantities we need? No. Can we make precursors like raw steel in the quantities that we need. Strategic minerals? Is our power secure? What about our transportation?
It’s okay, we don’t need the industrial side. We’ll just buy the stuff from China
Okay.
The costs of the war:
1. The bombs being used were already manufactured and paid for. Unless you are expecting an imminent war with Russia or China, they were just sitting around getting old. We already got rid of some old stock in Ukraine but we have plenty more. That’s why the 70 year-old B52’s are dropping our stockpile of dumb bombs.
2. The airplanes, ships, and troops already exist and are paid for (or in the case of the troops, already being paid).
The actual costs of the war are only the increases in pay for overseas/combat service, increased maintenance, and increased fuel costs, and of course, some equipment losses.
Of course, there will be future costs in replacing expended munitions and worn-out equipment, but in many cases those would have to be replaced anyhow because we can’t expect that the obsolete stuff we are expending now would be of use in the more sophisticated future.
Deaths, of course, are a separate matter but so far at least they are very few.