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Just one example from many of the in capacity of the US MIC to make any armaments

When they invaded Ukraine in 2022, and when having realised that they needed to manufacture more artillery shells, having quickly emptied their stocks, the Pentagon looked around for somehow somewhere someone to do so

The in country plants such as survived were decrepit and in disarray, but they thought to try and tidy up one in Scranton, despite the WWII machinery and technology still in use

That’s as far as they had gotten when during 2023 negotiations with Erdogan someone had the smarts to tell him that if he wanted a deal he’d have to supply install build and operate a shell factory

For Erdogan nothing could have been easier – General Dynamics managed to commission the building and slap on their logo, but the rest was down to the Turks: the PR claims this factory, still being assembled, will provide 30% of US shell production

That’s the US MIC – fighting proxy wars with proxy arms men and money

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