[christophilus]

You cannot win a war without a manufacturing base. That’s the thing that public transit won’t fix. It won’t give us a manufacturing base. Auto builders will.

There are probably plenty of ways to ensure a manufacturing base, but having a robust auto industry is one way that is pretty well understood.

I don’t like the amount of inefficiency caused by protectionism, though.

[kawaiikouhai]

It's ridiculous to bring up a war scenario when it's about EVs.

Go reshore the military. Yes, the Americans and Western Europe lost in EVs. Though, I only ever see Americans turn this event into losing a war.

[suraci]

when I first watched Full Metal Jacket (as well as other films by Stanley Kubrick), I couldn’t understand a lot of the content - for example, the “War Face”