Brilliant move. Giving South Korea the U.S. approval required to provide for its own defense, while using that to incentivize investment into American shipbuilding.
Just long overdue: South Korea is one of the last, staunch US allies that can build large ships at scale.
But will bringing manufacturing to Philadelphia be a mistake? Will they run into the generations-steeped shipyard workers and steelworkers?
Will American steelworkers try put one over to make themselves an expense, or a legit partnership to help each other?
I can see this going either way; and I hope this partnership transcends the usual, petty partisanship.
Shipyards are long-term investments. It makes sense to build them when you have the expertise and labor costs are in your favor. But once you have built them, they are a sunk cost. You can remain competitive against countries with cheaper labor for decades.
Globalization and the growth of international trade also helped. China built new shipyards, but the demand for new ships also grew, keeping Korean and Japanese shipyards in business. Meanwhile, the wage gap is gradually getting narrower.
We should get every country to do this.
Build your nuclear subs here, in the US shipyards. We'll help you!
We can massively expand our capacity, which will be important for self defense in the coming decades.
If they aren’t, you can’t neutralize the enemies supplies. If they are, those third countries are effectively part of the conflict.
The US had to take the latter stance because it didn’t have a strong industry to product its own weapons. If it supported nations from buying from non-warring parties, it would be shit out of luck if it had its own wars. So it received a lot of investment from European powers, generating jobs, economic growth, and the funding to expand its domestic production without having to take on debt or wait for a war to break out.
Come its entry into WWI and then WWII, the US had a strong home base of industrial capacity for arms manufacturing.
Trust lost is trust that either never comes back or it takes tremendous, long term continuous effort. Not holding my breath.
“We can’t. The updates are still updating”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury
Tl;dr attenuation of signals in water is frequency dependent, just like in air or walls, etc.
So the plane has a 5 mile long antenna
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